ie ERYTHEA. 
ca’s most eccentric, albeit versatile, naturalist had not always 
been fairly treated by his contemporaries. There resulted 
further the conviction that many naturalists now living have 
formed opinions concerning the nature and value of his work 
which appear to Dr. Call to be quite erroneous. The volume 
will include a complete bibliography of Rafinesque’s writings 
containing over four hundred titles, together with a certified 
copy of his will, “one of the most remarkable testamentary 
documents ever probated.” 
THE RECENT attempt to cut down the area of the national for- 
est reservati hould serve as a warning to every unmercantile 
Californian. It is plain that the Yosemite and other reser- 
vations are not secure so long as there are men in Congress 
with such lack of calibre as Representative Bowers. The 
plea made that portions of the reservations are capable of 
being applied to agricultural uses convicts the utterer of it 
of inanity. Rocks and cliffs are well enough in their way, 
but something more is needed for a forest reservation. The 
Government has in California only enough for the nucleus 
of a national forestry system, and it is insistent that the 
King’s County and other reservations be not diminished. If 
the sheep and lumber men were given license there would 
not be a shrub or pine or single specimen of Sequoia 
gigantea left in the whole length of the Sierras. The propo- 
sition to empower the Secretary of the Interior with the 
approval of the President to reopen to settlement such por- 
tions of the reservations as he may see fit is designed to 
benefit only the corporations and stock-men of insatiate 
eed. Proponents of forestry, as well as lovers of the High 
Sierras, should interest themselves herein personally. They 
can write to the representatives from their districts setting 
forth such facts as may be within their reach. 
