News Notes 
FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 
‘*A very small amount of information gained by the student in 
the field of Nature is sufficient to kindle the desire to increase it. 
The 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 hght.’’—T’. Vernon Wollaston, 1856. 
Mr. Paul Kibler, 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. R. 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 Omus. 
The Lorquin Natural History Club, for young naturalists, 
named for the pioneer collector of California insects, has been 
organized in Los Angeles, and promises 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 
