52 THE WEST AMEKICAN SCIENTIST. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Dr. Parry is now visiting on the continent of Europe. 



Prof. Sereno Watson has returned to Cambridge from Guatamala. 



Dr. Asa Gray and wife and Prof. W. G. Farlow have returned to 

 Cambridge from their visit to California. 



Corrections to May number: Read Phacelia ixodes, Kell., in- 

 stead of P. oxodes, p. 38; and read fruit instead of bloom, sixth line 

 from bottom of first column on p. 41. 



A list of the mollusca of the vicinity of San Diego, Calif., and 

 Todos Santos Bay, Lower Calif., with notes on distribution, etc., 

 will soon be published in the Proceedings U. S. National Museum. 



We desire correspondence with every naturalist or collector on 

 the Pacific Coast, and every scientist interested in our natural re- 

 sources, and will thank all who have or will send us notes and 

 news or publications — scientific or otherwise — relating to the coast. 



Three bulletins of the U. S. Geological Survey on California 

 Paleontology, by Dr. C. A. White, are now in press. One will de- 

 scribe a new genus of Chamidae and several new gasteropods from 

 the vicinity of Todos Santos bay, on the western coast of Lower 

 California. 



Rev. E. L. Greene, in Ball. Cal. Acad. Sci., No. 3, describes two 

 new genera of Cruciferaa, Heterodraba milateralis, common in the 

 wheat fields of San Joaquin valley and extending to Lower Califor- 

 nia; and Athysanus pusillus, before placed by botanists in the 



genus Thysanocarpus. 



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NOTE. 



The West American Scientist was first issued in December, 

 1831, as a 4-page monthly at fifty cents per year. It is the official 

 organ of the San Diego Society of Natural History, but is inde- 

 pendent of that or other organizations. It will soon give a synop- 

 sis of the proceedings of that society and other valuable matter 

 regarding the natural resources of the Pacific slope. 



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