WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 

 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



A chit'l's amang you taking notes, 

 And faith! he'll prent it. — Burns. 



"II n'est aucun voyageur qui ne puisse faire bonne observation et 

 apporter au moins une pierre digne d'entrer dans la construction de ce grand 

 edifice." — H. B. de Saxtssure. 



"Since the greater refinements and thoroughness of scientific methods and 

 the enormous and ever-increasing mass of literature have inevitably led to 

 extreme specialization, it is more than ever important to look beyond tlic 

 immediate limits of one's own subject, and to note its points of contact witli 

 other lines of research." — Seward. 



Mr. H. H. Newcoml) and .Mr. Karl R. Coolidge are planning a trip to 

 San Diego. 



Rev. George W. Taylor, a well-known student of Pacific Coast Entoniologj' 

 and other branches of natural history, died, at Nanaiiiio, British Cohuubia, 

 last August. 



"Within the next few weeks ground will be broken in Golden Gate Park 

 opposite the ileniorial ^luseum for the new Academy of Science building. 

 Contracts already have been let for the first wing to cost $120,000. For six 

 years experts have been working on exhibits and M^hen completed the contents 

 of the building will greatl.v surpass those of the old museum on Market Street, 

 destroyed by the fire of '['MW.''—Thr. S. F. Argonaut, August 31, 1912. 



Mr. Joim C'duistdck, formerly secretary of the Entomological Section of 

 the (Chicago Acadcm.v of Sciences, is now living in Los Angeles. 



William Greenwood Wright, a pioneer naturalist of California, died 

 December 1. at San Bernardino. lie was the author of "ButterHies of the 

 West Coast," published in San Francisco in 1!)05, and of many short articles 

 in various journals. He was also a well-known botanical collector and his 

 name appears often in the "Botany of California." He was well known on 

 the Pacific Coast and will alwa.ys l)e remembered in connection witli tiie 

 ]>ioneers of science on this Coast. 



In the magivzine section of the Los Angeles Times of Deeenibei' 1, there is 

 an interesting account, with illustrations, of the work in ])reeding huttertiies. 

 of Miss Xinu>na IMcGlashan of Truckee, Calif. She is the daughter of C. F 

 McGlashan, well known as a collector of Lejiidoptera, and a pioneer who camr 

 to California in the earl.y days with the ill-fated Donner party, of which he 

 wrote a history. 



