JANUARY, 1887. 



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A Popular Review and Record for the Pacific Coast 



Official Organ of the San Diego Society 



of Natural History. 



C. R. ORCUTT, 



Editor. 



CONTENTS: 



New Plants from Northern California Prof. E. L. Greene --4 



Eminent Naturalists— IV Prof. Josiah Keep 25 



New Cretaceous Fossils. — Illustrated 28 



A Frail and Beautiful Shell.— (A Poem) Selected from Tennyson 31 



The Western Gull in Captivity H. R. Taylor in O. & O. 32 



The Western Species of Echinocystis Prof. E. L. Greene 34 



The Bee's Sting a Useful Tool Scientific American 37 



An Insectivorous Plant 38 



Diminutive Mail Matter 38 



Necrology 38 



Correspondence 39 



Proceedings of Societies 40 



Editorial 42 



Notes and News 42 



Literature 44 



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