WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



FORDYCE OKINNELL, JK. 

 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



•'It is only needlul that one shall read and tliink, and the work of others, 

 which may have been published half a century ago, will suggest something to 

 you which it never suggested to anyone before, and which may occupy your 

 attention for years."- — Francis E. Nipher. 



I'i'of. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Stanford University, attended the Second 

 International (Jongress of Entomology, at Oxford, England, last August; he 

 contributed a paper on the distribution of the Mallophaga, and acted as 

 chairman of one of the sections. 



Dr. (Uiarles Lincoln Edwards has been appointed Naturalist of the i'ark 

 Department of Los Angeles, in eiiarge of the proposed Zoological Gardens in 

 Griffith Park. Entomology will be represented, as outlined in the first pub- 

 lication of the Los Angeles Zoological Society, issued in August. 



Dr. Albert J. (Jook, State Horticultural Comnussioner, has been delivering 

 lectures in various parts of ('alifornia, during the past summer, on the work 

 of the CJommission. 



Messrs. Newcomb, Haskiu and Coolidge, of Los Angeles, have recently 

 taken a considerable series of the very interesting butterfly, Lycaena neurona, 

 on ]Mt. Wilson, the first part of September, which was described in 1902 by Dr. 

 Skinner, from one female. 



Mr. J. R. Haskin, on his recent trip to Northern Arizona, took a nice 

 series of Thecla halesus. 



Mr. J. ('. Bridwell, Instructor in Entomology, University of California, 

 was in Southern California during the past summer, collecting especially in 

 the San Jacinto Mountains, and Los Angeles County, and getting many inter- 

 esting Hymenoptera. He spoke to a meeting of the Entomological Club in 

 August on his San Jacinto trip. 



Mr. Wilhelm Sehrader is constructing an elaborate and .specially [ilanncd 

 building for liis experimental work with the Lepidoptera, near Los Angeles. 



Mr. II. V>. Fall, of Pasadena, spent his summer, as usual, in Boston, study- 

 ing part of the time at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



In the October nundjer of The Auk, an ornithological magazine, there is 

 an article l)y Francis II. Allen, entitled "Remarks on the Case of Roo.sevelt vs. 

 Thayer, With a Few Independent Suggestions on the Concealing ('oloralion 

 Question." The paper is of interest to all naturalists interested in animal 

 biononucs. 



Recherches Experimentales sur les Mecanismes du Melanisme et I'Al- 

 binisnie ehes les Lepidopteres, par Dr. Arnold Pietet. Memoires de al Societe 



