i^o Vlest American Scientist. 



LITER A TURE. 



A Bird's Eye View of the City of San Diego has been received 

 from the pubHshers, the San Diego Union Co. 



Excellent Maps of the San Vicente Basin. Lower California, 

 showing the topography and quaHty of the soil south of Todos 

 Santos Bay to San Ramon, have been received from W. E. 

 Webb, land commissioner of the International Co. of Mexico, 

 New York. 



Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, Central Park, New York, for 1886-7 is at hand. 



Our Cotemporaries are well represented in the advertising 

 pages of this journal but we owe many of them something more 

 for the very friendly notices they have given of the West 

 American Scientist in recent issues. However, we shall not 

 attempt to enumerate the good features or even mention the 

 names of them all. We have before mentioned the change in 

 the editorial management of the American Mojithly Microsco- 

 pical Jourjial, Prof. Henry L. Osborn, of Lafayette, Ind., taking 

 charge during the absence of Prof. Hitchcock in Japan. The 

 Microscopical Bulletin, issued by Queen & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 continues bi-monthly and excellent as well. 



The American Naturalist shows a decided improvement in 

 appearance since the Lippincott Co. have become publishers; 

 Edw. D. Cope and J. S. Kingsley are the leading editors under 

 the new management, with an able stafT of specialists for the 

 departments. Kosmos has reached our table but once in the 

 first two issues. We learn that another journal, to be devoted to 

 science and art, is soon to be started in San Francisco under the 

 title of the American Scientist. The editor of the Hoosier 

 Naturalist, Valparaiso, Ind., reports prosperity, and maintains 

 the popular character of that low priced monthly. Science con- 

 tinues to reach us weekly with scientific and educational discus- 

 sions, and the latest news of the day that render this journal so 

 nearly indispensable. Popular Scie7ice News, of Boston, issued 

 monthly, and the Scientific American are both practical journals 

 for the artisan and the general public. 



The Co7ichologists' Exchange improves with age. 



The Youth's Companion gained 25,000 in circulation the past 

 year, a success which it well deserves. Twenty tons of paper 

 are consumed weekly in its edition of nearly 400 000. 



St. Nicholas reaches our table every month a little before the 

 mammoth Century Magazine fills up our box at the post office. 

 It is hard to tell which is read with the greatest pleasure by those 

 for whom they are respectively prepared. There is yet hope for 

 the American nation when such magazines, full of good and 

 instructive reading, have so large a circulation. 



