Volume III. 





OCTOBER, 1887. 



Whole No. 20. 



THE 



We^t * i^mefican + ^Gieqtii^t 



^ Popular Review and Record for America. 



Official Organ of the San Diego Society 



of Natural History. 



C. R. ORCUTT, - EDITOR. 



201 

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CONTKKTS: 



Fossil Botany, II Dr. L. G. Yates 



Mummy Eyes for Jewelry Geo. F. Kunz 



Extended Range of Some Californian Plants, Prof. E. L. Green 206 



The Late Professor Baird , Dr. L. G. Yates 207 



Great Destruction of Birds 208 



Notes on the Power of Scent in the Sexton Beetle, L. R. Lighton 209 



Editorial 210 



Among the Magazines 210 



A Glance at Books 211 



Notes and News 211 



The Restless Sea "A Poem," L. M. Smith 212 



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