News Notes 
FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 
‘‘Nature is ever making signs to us, she 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. EK. 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. He 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. Aldrich, of the University of Idaho, is study- 
ing the fruit flies (Trypetide) 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 Californian collectors, 
now of the Bussey Institution of Harvard, has been collecting 
for several months 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 
by C. O. Esterly, 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 Los Angeles on ‘‘The Pelagic Organisms Off the Coast of 
Southern California.’’ 
Mr. F. W. Bryant, a well-known student and collector of 
shells 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 Brea Rancho are of special interest. 
