Notes aiid News. lyj 



Ornithology and Oology, — A department devoted to these 

 branches of natural science, will be conducted for a time by R. B. 

 Trouslot, late editor of the Hoosier Naturalist, which has been 

 consolidated with this magazine. We trust this feature will be 

 supported and duly appreciated by our friends, and especially by 

 those who were readers of Mr. Trouslot's Natu) atist. 



Life Subscriptions. — The proposition made elsewhere of 

 sendino;- this magazine to any subscriber for life, on payment of 

 ten dollars, will be a novel one to many of our readers. While 

 it is common for societies to have members pay when they choose 

 a sum that shall release them from further payment of dues, lew 

 papers have yet adopted the plan. Subscribers must have con- 

 fidence in the vitality of a paper to accept such an offer, which is 

 to their advantage as well as that of the publisher; some prefer 

 buying their periodicals by the month, or single copy of a news- 

 dealer, others prefer buying a yearly subscription, but many we 

 think would prefer paying for life, if they were assured of the pub- 

 lications vitality. 



New Readers. — As this will reach many new friends this 

 month — friends secured by the purchase of the'good will of a late 

 contemporary, we would bid them welcome and invite their co- 

 operation in the conducfmg of this magazine: Get up clubs, 

 write us of your work, and remember that each subscriber and 

 reader owns a share in the West American Scientist associa- 

 tion, for the advancement and popularization of science. 



Will you not be active members of this association ? A number 

 of sample copies are monthly distributed free and we hope each 

 one receiving a copy willy<$'^■;^ our associaiioji as active members. 

 The dues are only $i.oo a year, or $10.00 for a life interest. 



NO TES AND NE WS. 



Frank Stevens, the ornithologist, will spend the season in 

 Arizona, collecting the manuals of that region for the National 

 Museum. 



Fears are entertained that the enthusiastic botanist, C. G. Prin- 

 gle, will not return from his late trip into Mexico, as no news has 

 been received from him. 



A night-blooming Cereus was observed while expanding Its 

 wax-like petals by a company of twenty- five or more, on the 

 evening of July 27, at the Chollas valley nursery of J. H. Orcutt. 



The Orcutt collection of cactus plants, numbering about five- 

 hundred varieties, and the second or third largest collection in the 

 United States, was lately purchased for planting in a park on 

 Coronado Beach. Inquiries for a similar collection are made by 

 Pasadena parties. 



