News Notes 



FOEDYCE GRINNELL, JB. 



"A vei"}' small amouut ol" informatiou gaiued by the student in 

 the field of Nature is sufficient to kindle the desire to increase it. 

 "J^he more we know, the more we are anxious to know ; though the 

 less we seem to know. It is one of the distinctive privileges of 

 the naturalist that he has to labour in a mine which is inexhaust- 

 ible : the deeper he digs beneath the surface, the richer is the vein 

 for excavation, and the more interesting are the facts which he 

 brings successively to light." — T. Vernon Wollaston, 1856. 



Mr. Paul Kililer, a collector of natural history specimens in the 

 Pacific Islands and South America, spent the past summer at 

 Long Beach. He has gone to the Solomon Islands. 



Mrs. W. W. Gnash, of Wenden, Arizona, is collecting some 

 interesting insects, especially Lepidoptera, in that interesting 

 but little known region. 



Dr. Anstruther Davidson, of Los Angeles, spent the month of 

 July at Bishop Creek, Inyo county, on the western side of 

 Owen's Valley, collecting plants and insects. 



Mr. B. L. Beardsley, secretary of the Southern California 

 Academy of Sciences, collected insects in the Southern Sierras 

 along Kern River and the headwaters of the Tule River, the past 

 summer, and has taken some interesting beetles, including Omiis. 



The Lorquiu Natural History Club, for young naturalists, 

 named for the pioneer collector of California insects, has been 

 organized in Los Angeles, and jiromises to become a fine asso- 

 ciation of rising naturalists. 



A card from Mr. W. M. Mann, the active, energetic collector 

 and student, well-known in California, reports "good collecting 

 here," July 11, in Southern Mexico. He will doubtless have some 

 interesting insects to report to the Entomological World. 



Mr. Wilhelm Schrader is now doing some significant experi- 

 mental work with the dimorphic Colias Eurytheme females, at 



