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-^ Popular Review and Record for the Pacific Coast 



Official Organ of the San Diego Society 



of Natural History. 



C. R. ORCUTT, 



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CONTENTS: 



Minerals and Mines of San Diego C. R. Orcutt 69 



Hairless Mice in Humboldt County Carl C. Marshall. ... 72 



How to Collect Plants C. R. Orcutt 73 



The Lily (a poem) Illustrated E. E 75 



History of the Agassiz Association H. H. Ballard 76 



Santa Cruz Island Rev. S. Bowers 77 



The Labor Performed by Bees 78 



The Whistling Tree 77 



Extinct Animals 78 



Nature's Compasses 79 



Pleasures of a Naturalist L J. Gray 80 



Botanical Notes from Abroad A Reader 80 



Our Park 81 



C G. Pringle 82 



Necrology 82 



Correspondence 83 



Proceedings of Societies 85 



Editorial 87 



Notes and News 89 



Literature 90 



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