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PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1904. 



It is a trite saying that there are always two sides to a story. 

 Prof. Cockerell has called attention to errors in regard to South- 

 western Geographical names, and his article is timely, but it 

 also calls attention to an unfortunate condition of affairs. 

 Eve^one has not been in the Southwest, and everyone does 

 not have a Spanish dictionary at his elbow. If we were to see 

 the words Arroga near San Ignario, at light, we might suspect 

 what was meant, but would not blame the person who did not. 



It would be much better when one means to refer to Lower 

 California to use that name and not Baja California. 



We are constantly having trouble in deciphering and trans- 

 lating names of places from which collections have been re- 

 ceived. The celebrated collector Mr. Jones has been in New 

 Mexico or Old Mexico. He has collected at some celebrated 

 town, not mentioned on any map, and consisting of one street 

 of mud-houses. Mr. Jones of course knows where Mr. Jones 

 has been, and if the world does not know this also, it is the 

 fault of the world. He ivrites ? his labels but of course no one 

 can read them. Another collector has visited Tuxpan and ad- 

 mits it, for which we feel very grateful, and look in the geog- 

 raphy for the place and find four of them there is nothing 

 like being liberal. We only know things by comparison, and 

 probably would not appreciate an honest man if there were no 

 thieves, so when a collector goes West (or any other direc- 

 tion) and on his return sends you printed labels for the speci- 



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