WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 

 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



"It is not cnougli to toil in our little corner of the field. We must keep our- 

 selves in touch witii wh.xt is going on now, and what has been done during the 

 past in that and surrounding parts of the domain of science. Many a time we 

 may find that the results obtained by some fellow laborer, though they may have 

 had but little significance for him, flash a flood of light on what we have been 

 doing ourselves." — Geikie, in "The Founders of Geology." 



Mr. H. H. Newcomb, formerly of Boston, an ex-president of the Cambridge 

 Entomological Club, has become a permanent resident of Southern California. 



The Monthly Bulletin of the State Horticultural Commission promises to 

 be a useful publication. It is devoted largely to entomology ; and can be had 

 free by any citizen of this state. 



Mr. E. K. Harvey, of Los Angeles, lectured on butterflies before the Southern 

 California Academy of Sciences, on December 16; exhibiting his large collection 

 of beautifully mounted specimens from all parts of the world. 



At a meeting of the Entomological Club, held on December 14, at the resi- 

 dence of Mr. J. R. Haskin, in Los Angeles, Mr. Haskin reviewed Poulton's recent 

 papers on the mimicry of North American butterflies and adding some original 

 ideas of his own. It was followed by a general and enthusiastic discussion. Mr. 

 H. H. Newcomb was the leader of the opposition to the theory of mimicry. 



Mr. Karl R. Coolidge, who was in Los Angeles during December, is planning 

 to leave for Southern Arizona, for entomological collecting during the spring and 

 summer. 



The last number of the "Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural 

 History," issued in December, contained a valuable illustrated article on the 

 Honey Ants of Point Loma, near San Diego, by Percy Leonard. 



Dr. Edwin C. VanDyke, of San Francisco, president of the Pacific Coast 

 Entomological Society and Curator of Entomologj' in the California Academy of 

 Sciences, spent January in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. 



The San Diego Society of Natural History held its annual meeting on 

 Thursday afternoon, January 11. Its new building is nearing completion; and 

 they will then move their library and collections into the rooms. 



Mr. Francis X. Williams, of the University of Kansas, spent the Christmas 

 holidays at his home in San Francisco. He is a candidate for the Master of Arts 

 degree at the University ; and is monographing the Larrid wasps of Kansas. 



"Most attractive as an advertisement is that glass hive in which the bees are 

 at work, in front of a Broadway grocery store; where there is in progress a sale 

 of comb honey. Thousands stop to look at the busy little creatures in their work ; 

 and doubtless recall the many lessons drawn from the 'busy bee.' " — Los Angeles 

 Daily Times, Jan. 16. 



