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CORRESPONDENCE. 



AN APPRECIATED HONOR. 



Mr. C. R. Orcutt (San Diego, Cal. ,) — Dear Sir : I am instructed 

 by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Agassiz Association, to notify 

 you that you was elected an honorary member of the association, 

 at the last meeting. 



We ask you to take a kindly interest in the organization, and 

 give it the weight of your good wishes. Very respectfully, 



San Jacinto, Cal., April 6, 1887. Clara Long, Secretary. 



DISCONTINUED. 



Please discontinue the advertisement of the Naiuralisf s Com- 

 panion, now running in the West American Scientist. I have 

 discontinued the publication of the Companion and am going out 

 of business in Brockport, as I am about to eiiter Eastman's Busi- 

 ness University. Shall transfer my subscription list to some 

 worthy. publication shortly. Please make mention of this in your 

 magazine, and oblige, C. P- Gueif. 



Brockport, N- Y., March 23, 1887. 



AN excellent magazine. 



Will you please send a sample copy of your magazine. I am 

 taking the Naturalist' s Compa7iio7i of Brockport, N. Y.; it is an 

 excellent magazine. I would like to take a half dozen as good nat- 

 uralist's magazines, if I could find them. 



Charlestown, 111. J. P. Du?ilap. 



A reminiscence of the past. 



I duly received the Nos. of The West American Scientist. 

 I soon got deeply interested in their contents, particularly the 

 botanical portion, which is my specialty. It seems like a fairy tale 

 to know of the surprising developement of Southern California 

 within the past ten years. When I was at San Diego, in 1873, it 

 was a very crude sort of a town, and the most sanguine believer 

 in its future, would have hardly dreamed of a scientific journal ever 

 being published there, but so it seems to have come about, and 

 certainly you have started a journal worthy of an older civilization. 

 I hope it will have a long life, and ever-increasing prosperity. I 

 truly long to renew my botanical acquaintance with California, 

 where in the winter of 1873, I collected nearly 300 specimens of 

 flowering plants, besides ferns, mosses and seaweeds, mostly about 

 Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, with some in Sonoma and Lake 

 counties, Northern Cahfornia. 



There is little to suggest botanizing as yet in this frozen region, 

 as yesterday we had a driving snowstorm, and to-day the country 

 looks like mid winter. 



I would like, if possible, to get the Nos. i and 2, of Vol. I, of 

 The Scientist, so as to complete the set. I suppose they are 



