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Volume VI. 



NOVEMBER, 1889. 



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Notes from the San Diego Biological Laboratory II 



c'. H. & R. S. Eigenmann 147 



Obsidian Cliff 151 



P'auna and Flora of Colorado — III T. D. A. Cockerell 153 



Preliminary Notes on the Geology ol the Anacapas 155 



Briefer Articles — Earliest Americans; Communism in Ohio; Salt 



Mountains of the Colorado; The Cable Circuit of Africa; 



Modern Cave Dwellers in Germany; A Wonderful Lake; 



An Electric Plant 156 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 160 



Bibliography 160 



Editorial 162 



Notes and News 162 



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