Pl^est American Scientist. 14'] 



A RENEWAL. 



Enclosed, please find $1 for my subscription to The West 

 American Scientist. Allow me to thank you for the pleasure 

 your journal gives me each month. //. C. Ford. 



Pres. Nat. Hist. Soc, Santa Barbara. 



another correction. 



Please make another correction to the reported proceedings of 

 the Santa Barbara Soc Nat. Hist.: The article on 'Fossil 

 Botany and the Advantages of its Study,' which I herewith send, 

 was an emenation of the writer hereof, and not 'by H. C Ford,' 

 as given in the Scientist. I intend to write a series of articles 

 on the subject and will send them to you. 



In relation to the domestication of wild turkeys, some one has 

 blundered. Judge J. D. Caton, author of an inteiesting work on 

 * The Deer of America,' is a resident of Illinois, and at a meeting 

 of the Santa Barbara Society of Nat. Hist., spoke of his experi- 

 ence in the domestication of these birds but not at or near Santa 

 Barbara! Santa Barbara wants all the credit she is entitled to, 

 but Illinois would not like to have us steal her thunder nor 

 appropriate so valued a citizen for our own. 



Lorenzo G. Yates. 



Santa Barbara, April 28, 1887. 



EDITORIAL. 



The Naturalist' s Companio7i. The good will, subscription list, 

 and other belongings to this excellent magazine have been merged 

 into the West American Scientist for reasons given elsewhere 

 by the editor of that journal. The contributors are expected and 

 cordially invited to continue with us, while we hope the subscrib- 

 ers will find it to their advantage to do the same 



Our Circulation. The editor finds to his gratification that 

 the West American Scientist now reaches regularly thirty-two 

 of the states and territories of the Union, besides Canada and 

 various foreign countries, and that quite a bundle goes to the most 

 of them. It is truly becoming national in circulation, though the 

 larger portion of our patrons are in the southern counties of Cali- 

 fornia, and the journal owes much of its success to the popular 

 style in which subjects are presented to our readers, making what 

 would otherwise be of only local value of general interest to those 

 in the east as well as to those in the west. 



Illustrations. Through the kindness of W. E. Webb. Land 

 Commissioner of the International Co. of Mexico, Nevv York, we 

 shall be able to give a series of illustrations of Lower California 

 scenery, trees, and plants, beautifully engraved by the Moss Photo 



