WEST COAST NEWS NOTES 



FORDYCE GRINNELL, JR. 

 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



A chiel's amang you taking notes, 

 And faith! he'll prent it. — Burns. 



ri'cst aucun voyageur ijiii ne piiis.se faire bonne observation et 

 an iiioins une pierre digne d'entrer dans la eonstruction de ce grand 



— H. B. de Saussure. 



ce the greater refinements and thoroughness of scientific methods and 

 lous and ever-increasing mass of literature have inevitably led to 

 specialization, it is more than ever important to look beyond the 

 3 limits of one's own .subject, and to note its points of contact with 

 s of research." — Seward. 



H. H. Newcomb and ^Ir. Karl R. Coolidge are planning a trip to 



George W. Ta.vlor, a well-known student of Pacific Coast Entomology 



• branches of natural history, died, at Nanaiino, British Columbia, 



LSt. 



thin the next few weeks ground will be broken in Golden Gate Park 

 the Memorial ]\Iuseum for the new Academy of Science building. 

 1 already have been let for the first wing to cost $120,000. For six 

 erts have been working on exhibits and when completed the contents 

 Iding will greatl.v surpass those of the old museum on IMarket Street, 

 by the fire of 1906."— The 8. F. Argonaut, August 31, 1912. 



John Comstock, formerly secretary of the Entomological Section of 

 go Academy of Sciences, is now living in Los Angeles. 



lam Greenwood Wright, a pioneer naturalist of California, died 



• 1, at San Bernardino. He was the author of "Butterflies of the 

 ist," published in San Francisco in 1905, and of many short articles 

 s journals. He was also a well-known botanical collector and his 

 lears often in the "Botany of California." He was well known on 

 ic Coast and will always be remembered in connection with the 

 of science on this Coast. 



le magazine section of tlic Los Angeles Times of December 1, there is 

 sting account, with illustrations, of the work in lireeding butterflies. 

 Jimena McGlashan of Truckee, Calif. She is the daughter of C. F 

 in, well known as a collector of Lepidoptera, and a pioneer who came 

 rnia in tiie early days with the ill-fated Donner party, of which he 

 listory. 



