lo^f. West Anterican Scie7iiist. 



please get specimens so that they may be idenlified, unless you 

 know the specific names. 



Washington, March 15. 



[The above letter was without signature or other address than 

 here given. We trust to hear from the party again, and will give 

 such information as we can in future numbers on the subject. 

 Readers who can give any facts are invited to do so. No 

 dresses, as described, are known to us. The Pericue Indians 

 formerly occupied the southern part of the peninsula, but have 

 now entirely disappeared, leaving small trace of their customs 

 and prts behind. The flora of the region occupied by them is 

 imperfectly known. In the northern part, the different species of 

 tule, Juncus robustus and similar plants, are utilized by the 

 Indians to a small extent. The palm producing the white strong 

 threads is beyond question Washingtonia fililera, the California 

 fan palm, abundant through a large part of the peninsula .Ed.] 



A PROMISING SOCIETY. 



Enclosed please find $1.00 greenback with which please credit 

 me on my subscription to The West American Scientist. 



As you by this time know I have taken your advice in regard 

 to Agassiz Association — we have a live society of 35 members 

 which is going to be a great and a grand good thing for my 

 school. They have begun to interest themselves in Entomology, 

 Botany and Mineralogy, have decided upon a grand collecting 

 picnic for an early date, have begun to lay plans for concerts and 

 exhibitions for the purpose of "raising the wind," and together 

 have received a new impetus toward good things and away from 

 bad things. We hope soon to subscribe for a number of periodi- 

 cals, your Scientist to head the list of course. 



Have you a copy to sell or lend of the Scientist describing 

 Trap Door Spider? We hive found a famous locality for them 

 and want to learn more about them. 



Very hastily but cordially yours, 

 San Jacinto, March 30, 1887. Edw. Hyatt.. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES- 



San Francisco Microscopical Society. — March 9, 1887.. 

 The subject appointed for discussion, viz, Bacillus Tuberculosis 

 in Fowls, was introduced by Dr. Stallard, who said that the close 

 analogy existing between certain diseases found in many domestic 

 animals and the human race had long been known, as was also 

 the communicability of such diseases. Rabies was a case in 

 point, and, in a lesser degree, the disease known as anthrax or 

 charbon. It is a known fact that typhoid fever has been trans- 

 mitted from animals to man by means of infected milk. In con- 

 nection with this subject he desired to call attention to the follow- 



