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THE AMERICAN NALLRALIIST. 



A popular illustrate! monthly magazine of Natural History and travel. This 

 journal of popular Natural Science is published by Messrs. McCalla & Stavely, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., under the elitorial management of Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., and 

 Prof. E. D. Cope, with the assistance of eminent men of science. 



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 and Travels, Geology and Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Botany, Entomology, Zoology, 

 Physiology, Psychology, Anth opology, Microscopy and Histology. Ihe depart- 

 ment of Botany i> elited by Prof. 0. E. Bessey. that of Microscopy is edited by 

 Prof. 0. 0. Whitman, that of Mineralosry is edited by Prof. H. C. Lewis, and that 

 of Physiology by Prof. Henry Sewall, while the department of Geography and 

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CORRESPONDENCE* 



Ilex — For special purpose, connected with my botanical studies, I de'slfe to httve 

 a list of th^ species of Ilex native to the Pacific Coast of the United States. I also 

 desire to know if any of die species were used by the aborigines as a beverage, and, 

 if so, what particular species. 1 r. E. M. Hale, 



No. 65, Twenty-second Street, L hicago. 



SAST FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



December 3. 1885 — Dr. Thomas Morfew was duly elected ta ussfdenfc member- 

 ship. Specimens of a diatomacediis deposit found near Redding, California, weje 

 shown by Dr. C. P. Batesv Dr. Edward Gray exhibited a water immersion, one- 

 tenth of an inch objective, just received by him, constructed by the Gundlach Opti- 

 cal Company on the new formulae of E. Gundlach. E. J. Wickson presented a 

 paper on the parassitic ' Dodder ' ( Cuscuta), accompanied by drawings, etc. 



Prof. J. G. Lemmon writes: " My Arizona potatoes are doing well, 4 finches in 

 circumference the third year. Ihe third species are discovered, and that I thought 

 new proves so and is named by L. Blanchard of the French Revue Horticole, Sola- 



num Lemmoni." 



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It seem 1 ' almo t unnecessar / for us to call attention to a paper so well and favor- 

 ably known as the Youth's Companion of Boston. It has been for fifty -eight years 

 a wee.dy visitor, and each year has shown more clearly its wonderful usefulness to 

 the class of readers for whom it is prepared. 



It woul i be interesting to trace its influence in the case of two families, one of 

 wh ch be ^an, we will suppose, twenty years ago, to provide it for their child en to 

 read, while the other furnished the more sensational publications. The contrast 

 would no doubt be a striking one. 



P rents can give their chfldren few things of more value and importance in their 

 growth of mind and of character than a wide-awake, intelligent, wholesome paper 

 itito whose management the publishers put conscience and moral purpose as well as 

 money and ability. 



N. L. Briton, Ph. D., of the Columbia College School of Mines, will edit the 

 ' Journal of the New York Microscopical Society' during the coming year, instead 

 of Mr. B. Braman, who finds it impossible to continue the work on account of his 

 professional duties. *" 



