IgS The U^est Americmi Scientist. 



treatment as new species, as are also several forms previously con- 

 founded. 



A list of our manzanitas would be as follows: 

 Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng. 



pumila, Nutt. - 



Nevadensis, Gray. 



Hookeri, Don. 



Andersoni, Gray. 



tomentosa, Dougl. 



Manzanita, Parry, new. 



viscida, Parry, new. 



Stanfordiana, Parry, new. 



insularis, Greene, new. 



Pringlei, Parry, new. 



glauca, Lindl. 

 Our California 'pungens' is Parry's A. Manzanita, and 'glauca 

 is his A. viscida. A. Pringlei has been distributed as A. tomentosa- 

 Alatypes or stenotypography, by the late H. H. Brown, 1887, 

 92 pp., is a treatise on a system of condensed printing. From F. 

 W. Dunning, 32 South Division St., Battle Creek, Mich. Price, 

 4 cents. 



The Marysville (Cal.) Budget is an excellent literary monthly, 

 which we are glad to add to our exchange list. 



The Century for September contains Atwater's fourth paper on 

 the 'Digestibility of food,' which should be widely read. The 

 numerous historical papers in this number are of greater interest 

 and value than ever. 



St. Nicholas this month contains a pleasing article 'about hum- 

 ming-birds,' by Mrs. Homer H. Stuart. This magazine is as in- 

 teresting as when it was the organ of the Agassiz Association to 

 the young student of nature. 



Book Ch t, — Brentano's, N. Y. , — is an excellent index to the 

 periodical literature of the world for every month. It indexes the 

 contents of about 250 magazines, including all the more prominent 

 ones in the world. Among them, the West American Scien- 

 tist can be found. 



NECROLOGY. 



Alvan Clark, one of the great masters of the mechanical arts, 

 died at Cambridge, August 19, at the age of 83 years. He had a 

 world-wide reputation as an astronomer and as a manufacturer of 

 the most powerful astronomical instruments ever made. 



Spencer Fullerton Baird, the distinguished secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, director of the U. S. National Museum, 

 and Commissioner of fish and fisheries of the U. S. , died at Wood's 

 Hall, August 19. He was born in Reading, Pa., on February 3d, 

 1823. 



