News Notes 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 



"We shall certainly not discover Nature's plan in the struc- 

 ture of flowers by taking the plant out of the garden or coun- 

 try. We must rather study flowers in their natural habitats — 

 in short, ive must try to surprise Nature in the act." 



— Sprengel. 



"Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she 

 achieves her work." — Emerson. 



Mr. W. M. Mann, of the Bussey Institution of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, left on April 20 to spend the months of May and June 

 collecting in Southern Mexico. On his recent trip to Haiti he 

 collected two species of Peripatus. 



The first Pacific Coast chapter of the Agassiz Association has 

 been formed in Los Angeles, and choosing Burbank chapter 

 for the name. Alfred Cookman is president. 



Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, of the Los Angeles city 

 schools, is conducting a fly exterminating campaign in Los 

 Angeles county, this spring. 



The Pacific Coast Entomological Society held a special meet- 

 ing at Berkeley on April 10, in connection with the meetings of 

 the Pacific Coast Association of Scientific Societies meeting in 

 the same place. 



Mr. G. R. Pilate is planning a collecting trip to the Kern 

 River country of the Sierras, this summer, in the interests of 

 Dr. Wm. Barnes. He is collecting this spring around San 

 Bernardino. 



Mr. L. E. Ricksecker, a pioneer student of Entomology, died 

 at his home in San Diego on January 30. He discovered many 

 new insects ; first finding the curious habits of Pleocoma. 



Mr. H. C. Fall, of Pasadena, is revising the large and dif- 

 ficult Coleopterous genus Pachybrachys. 



