News and Notes. 97 



apparatus, died at his home in Albany, N Y , May 13th, aged 

 seventy years. He was born in Dresden, Saxony, February 23d, 

 1819. 



Professor Walley sta'es as his behef that tuberculosis might be 

 transmitted by fowls' eggs. 



The foundation walls of the front building of the Academy ol 

 Sciences are now completed, so that work on the superstructure 

 ol both front and back buildings is now in progress. — Biuldiiig 

 A'iVfrtiser, San Francisco, June, i88g. 



The Califo)7iia Florist a?id Gardener has been consolidated 

 with the Pacific Rural Press. 



"Our Greatest Inventor" is the tide which John Habberton 

 gives to a comprehensive article upon Ericsson in the July \\\\\\\- 

 ber oi the Lippincotr s Magazine. The builder of the Monitor. 

 and the inventor of the propeller and the caloric engine, has cer- 

 tainly great claims upon the gratitude not only of this country 

 but of the world. 



An instructive article upon " Farming among the Pueblo In- 

 dians," describing the primitive methods of agriculture and the 

 happy-go-lucky manner of life among that ancient Indian tribe, 

 is given in the Aynerican Agricidturisl for July. A quaint illus- 

 tration shows the buildings of a Pueblo Indian community at 

 Taos, New Mexico, the houses joined together, even built one on 

 top of the other, having lew windows and doors and generally 

 entered through the roof by a ladder — just as their ancestors 

 built their homes centuries ago. Their larming methods are 

 equally behind the times, but" are carried on in a manner fully 

 satisfactory to themselves. 



Dr. Edward Palmer has been severely sick at the hospital of 

 the Good Samaritan in San Diego. His friends will be glad to 

 learn that he is better at this writing. 



The Department of the interior, Census Office, Washington, 

 D. C, requests all members of the medical professions to apply 

 for physician's registers, now ready. Every M. D. should assist 

 in furnishing the statistics called for, and should apply at once. 



The only way to identify the nest and eggs of any small bird is 

 to shoot either parent. This is especially true of humming- 

 birds. ^- B elding. 



Dr. Eigenmann reports an earthquake at San Diego at 3 A. M. 

 June 25th. 



Dr. Parry has been visiting the Lemmon herbarium at Oakland. 



Dr. Harkness, president of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 recendy visited San Diego. 



