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West American Scientist 



A popular inonlhly re view and record for the Pacific Coaat 



CONTENTS: 



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improved >>oii-?)hell Walnut Frontispiece. 



The English Walnut 251 



The Walnut and Its Culture L. C. Cummins. 252 



Revision of the Bombvlid Genus Aphoebantus 



.'. n.W. Coquillett. 254 



The Convolvulus— A Poetn Mrs. E. E. Orcutt. 264 



Notes on Planting Miss K. O. Sessions. 265 



Apricots 268 



Contributions to West American Mollusca. — II.. C. R. Orcutt. 269 



Phacelia Conipanularia 270 



Letter from Dr. Geo. Eugclmann to Dr. C. C. Parr,v 271 



Cobcea Scandens Dorothy Lincoln. 272 



Weasels as Gopher and Squirrel Exterminators 



L. C. Cummins. 272 



Plantse Culteratse Exsiccatae 273 



A Woodland Scene— A Poem Mrs. E. E. Orcutt. 274 



San Francisco Microscopical Society William E. hoy. 275 



California Field Notes C R. Orcutt. 276 



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