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Ralph V. Chamberlin, of the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy of Harvard Uni\ersity, paid a short visit to Southern Cal- 

 ifornia the past spring, with hopes of returning in the not 

 distant future for a longer stay. 



John James Rivers, of Santa Monica, the last surviving 

 pioneer naturalist of California, is still active, and working on 

 the i)Ieistocene shells of Santa Monica. He is in his eighty- 

 eighth year. 



We learn from Science, of April 11, that Prof. M. M. Met- 

 calf, head of the department of zoology at Oberlin, has been 

 granted leave of absence for this past semester for travel and 

 scientific research in California. 



The contract has been let for the erection of the magnificent 

 Southwest Museum buildings in Los Angeles, to cost about 

 $100,000. Dr. Hector Alliot is curator. 



At a general meeting of the Southern California Academy of 

 Sciences in Los Angeles, on April 7, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, of 

 the Desert Botanical Laboratory, gave an illustrated talk on 

 "Some Physical and Biological Features of Deserts"; and at 

 a meeting of the biological section on the 15th, Dr. C. L. 

 Edward gave an account of some European biological stations. 



Mr. Harry S. Swarth, formerly of the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology at Berkeley, has been appointed assistant director of 

 the county museum in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. 



A new entomological journal is announced from London, 

 England, "The Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, 

 Agricultural; Series B, Medical and Veterinary." The first 

 has already been issued. "It is intended to contain, month by 

 month, abstracts of the latest information i)ublished concern- 

 ing insects injurious to man or animals, as the carriers of dis- 

 ease; and to forests, fruit trees, crops and stored mercban 

 dise." It is published by Dulau & Co., Ltd., 37 Soho Square. 



"To the making of books there is no end." 



