News Notes 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JK. 



"Nature is ever niakin!>- signs to ns, slie is ever whispering to 

 us the beginnings of her secrets; the scientific man must be 

 ever on the watch, ready at once to lay hold of Nature's hint 

 however small, to listen to her whisper however low." 



— Michael Foster. 



Mr. E. P. VanDuzee, the hemipterist, formerly of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., has come to Southern California to live, probably at San 

 Diego, and is bringing his large and important collection and 

 library with him. lie visited in Pasadena in December. 



Plans are being prepared for a building for the Southern 

 California Academy of Sciences in Los Angeles. The building 

 to consist of a lecture auditorium, general exhibition floors, a 

 library and special collection rooms. 



Professor J. M. Aldrieli, of the University of Idaho, is study- 

 ing the fruit flies (Trypetida?) of the world, and expects to be 

 engaged in studying this interesting group of insects for 

 several years. 



Mr. W. M. Mann, well known to many C'alifornian collectors, 

 now of the Bussey Institution of Harvard, has been collecting 

 for several luonllis in the island of Haiti. 



The January number of the Bulletin of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences contains an article on the oil fly 

 l)y C. (). Estevly, giving additional notes and criticisms to those 

 published by Crawford in this journal. 



Dr. Wm. E. Ritter, director of the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research at La Jolla, recently addressed the bio- 

 logical section of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 

 in Ijos Angeles on "The Pelagic Organisms Off the Coast of 

 Southern California." 



Mr. F. W. Bryant, a well-known student and collector of 

 sliells in San Diego, died recently in the Hawaiian Islands. 



The County Museum Building in Exposition Park, Los An- 

 geles, has been opened to the public. The skeletons of extinct 

 mammals from La P>rea Rancho are of special interest. 



