S2 West American Scientist. 



to rob the country of all trace of what it has been, when not a tree 

 nor house nor ship marred the unrivalled beauty of San Diego ; 

 when the stately yucca, witli its immense clusters of creamy white 

 bells alone guarded our hills, the evergreen manzanita bloomed 

 unseen, and the billowy sea of adenostoma made a grateful rest 

 for the savage eye, like the grass upon a prairie or an Eastern 

 meadow. 



Let man do what he can ; lay out beautiful walks and drives, 

 erect fountains and conservatories for fair exotics, galleries of art 

 and museums of history, but may he leave that which art cannot 

 give — 'what heaven hath done for this delightful land.' ' 



San Diego, Cal., March i, 1887. A Reader, 



C G. PRINGLE. 



W. J. Beal writes the Botanical Gazette: 



"On the 27th of November, for a few hours, I had the pleasure 

 of the company of Mr. C. G. Pringle, of Charlotte, Vermont, who 

 is on his way home from Northern Mexico, where he has again 

 spent the summer collecting plants. All who have seen his speci- 

 mens know that he is a prince among collectors. Next year he 

 anticipates going on to higher grounds in the same country. He 

 thinks it is a rough, dangerous way to live, some of the time 

 among people who would not hesitate to kill him merely for his 

 clothes. Still he is full of enthusiasm and likes the work. There 

 is a perpetual fascination in finding new things, as well as in meet- 

 ing with old friends among his plants." 



NECROLOGY. 



Nevos, an aged Indian, died in North San Diego on January 24, 

 1887, at the age of 125 years. Nevos was raised by the first mis- 

 sionaries that visited Lower California, and came with them to 

 San Diego. He assisted in the building of several mission build- 

 ings, among them the old mission church at San Diego. He had 

 been stone blind for many years, but worked until within a short 

 time of his death in cutting wood, washing clothes, hoeing corn 

 and beans, and was never known to injure a single hill. He always 

 refused to ^o to the poor-house, and was well cared for at the last 

 by a woman of the same race. 



Gen. W. B. Hazen. the head of the U- S. Signal Service, died 

 near the middle of January. 



Prof E.L. Youmans. editor and founder of the Popular Science 

 Monthly, to whom Americans are indebted for his successful labors 

 in rendering available to them much of the best scientific thought 

 of the time, died during January last. 



Prof J. M. Madvig, the great Danish scholar, is reported dead 

 at the age of 82 years. 



