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Volume VI. JUNE, 1889. Whole No. 44. 



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A popular monthly teview and record for the Pacific Coast. 

 Official Organ of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 



C. R. ORCUTT. - - Editor. 



CONTENTS : 



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Some Native Forage Plants of Southern California C R. Orcutt 41 



His Praise (Poem) E. E. Orcutt 43 



An Indian Myth C. R. Orcutt 43 



Contributions from the San Diego Biological Laboratory 



C. H.& R. S. Eigenmann 44 



List of Beetles of the Genus Amara Taken Recently in Colorado, 



T. D. A. Cockerell 47 



Hours for Visitors to the Lick Observatory 48 



Proceedings of Scientific Societies 48 



Briefer Articles— The Loco Weed; A Thorny Path; Michel Eu- 

 gene Chevreul; The Later Dew Theory.../ 53 



Mineralogical Notes George F. Kuntz 55 



Bibliography 56 



Editorial 58 



Notes and News 59 



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