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, we must try to surprise Nature in the act,”’ 
—Sprengel. 
‘‘Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she 
achieves her work.’’ —Hmerson. 
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. 
