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SAN DIEGO, OAL,, MAY, 1886. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



We have lately received a call 

 from our young Poway entomol- 

 ogist, Frank E. Blaisdell, who has 

 paid especial attention to Coleop- 

 tera, his local collection o£ beetles 

 alone containing about seven hun- 

 dred species. 



We cannot help admiring the 

 Century Magazine, which month- 

 ly presents its readers with such 

 a variety of pure, original matter, 

 and maintains so high a standard 

 in the quality of its literary and 

 artistic contents. 



It is hard to keep posted on the 

 latest scientific news without Sci- 

 ence, the well known weekly mag- 

 azine, which is unsurpassed in the 

 ability and fairness with which it 

 discusses scientific subjects. With 

 Science, and The American Nat- 

 uralist, the general reader can 

 keep reliably posted on tke news 

 of the day throughout the world 

 of nature. 



From .a special New York cor- 

 respondent of the West Ameri- 

 can Scientist we learn of the 



death of Franz Abt, the German 

 composer, born in Prussian Sax- 

 ony in 1819. When only twenty- 

 two years old he became director 

 of music in the Zurich Theatre, 

 and finished "Agathe," or, as it is 

 better known in America, " When 

 the Swallows Homeward Fly," the 

 14th of May, 1842, which made 

 him world-renowned shortly after. 

 Abt's compositions were not en- 

 tirely vocal; but it is said that his 

 songs outnumber any other writer 

 of Lieder. 



We acknowledge the card o£ 

 Lieut. Thos. L. Casey, U. S. A., 

 who paid San Diego a short visit 

 about the middle of last month, 

 during our absence in Lower Cal- 

 ifornia. We understand he found 

 during his brief stay about eighty 

 species of beetles which he had 

 not found in the vicinity of San 

 Francisco, where he is now sta- 

 tioned, collecting twenty species 

 in the low peninsula of San Diego 



bay. 



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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Prodromus Monographic, Oe- 

 dogoniearum, auctore, V. B. Witt- 

 rock, Upsala, 1877. From the au- 

 thor. 



On the Development and Sys- 

 tematic Arrangement of the Pith- 

 ophoracese. A new order of algse, 

 by Yeit Brecher Wittrock, Upsala, 

 1877. From the author. 



Bulletin de la Federation des 

 Societes d' Horticulture de Bel- 



gique, 1882, Liege, Belgium, 1884. 

 From the secretary. Contains a 

 list of botanists, botanical gar- 

 dens, museums, papers and socie- 

 ties. 



