go West American Scientist. 



LITERATURE. 



A catalogue of the known plants (Phaenogamia and Pterido- 

 phyta) of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, by Thomas Howell, 

 has been received from the author. Among the 2,379 kinds of 

 plants enumerated are many of our San Diego plants, including 

 Bromus Orcuttianus, Vasey, first discovered on Smith's Moun- 

 tain in this county. 



An analytical key to West Coast Botany, containing descrip- 

 tions of 1,600 species of flowering plants, growing west of the 

 Sierra Nevada and Cascade crests, from San Diego to Puget 

 Sound, has just been published by A. L. Bancroft & Co.. of San 

 Francisco, from the pen of Volney Rattan. It is intended as a 

 preliminary to the author's proposed West Coast Botany, which 

 will probably be completed in three years. 



Transactions of the Meridan (Conn.) Scientific Association, 

 Volume II, is at hand, showing that an unusual proportion of its 

 members are active. 



Valuable publications have been received from Hon. E. M. 

 Goodwin, Hartland, Vermont; Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Boston ; California State Board of Forestry ; Dr. Gustave 

 Eisen, Fresno, Cal ; Dr. Lorenzo G. Yates, Santa Barbara ; Dr. 

 C. C. Parry, and others. 



The Pacific Science Monthly is to be issued in the future as a 

 bulletin of the Ventura' Society of Natural History, bi-monthly, 

 quarterly, or as occasion may demand. 



The Golden State Scientist has reached our table but once, and 

 other tables have fared the same. We learn the encouragement 

 it received was insufficient to enable the publisher to continue, and 

 that he returned the money received for subscriptions. 



The Milwaukee Naturalist, it is announced, proposes to die. 



The Swiss Cross has entered the field as the official organ of the 

 Agassiz Association, to be issued monthly at $1-50 a year. The 

 first (January) number is at hand, consisting of forty pages. It is 

 uniform in size with Science, the weekly journal. 



The Golden Era, the oldest literary magazine in the West, will 

 hereafter be published at San Diego instead of in San Francisco, 

 where it has been issued for thirty-five years. It is fit that the 

 oldest city in California should possess the oldest literary journal 

 on the coast, as well as the oldest scientific magazine. 



The February Century contains an interesting article on the 

 winter resorts in the Bahamas ; a continuation of ' Abraham Lin- 

 coln,' a history; a sketch of the new Astronomy, 'the Stars' by 

 S. P. Langley, and an account of recent discoveries of works of 

 art in Rome. Edward Atkinson contributes his second paper on 

 the relative strength and weakness of nations, equally as strong 

 as his first. 



