

Volume HI. 



NOVEMBER. 1887. 



\Whole No. 31 



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We^t * American + pcieiili^t. 



A Popular Review and Record for America, 



Official Organ of the^an Diego Sociefy 



of Natural History. 



C. R. ORCUTT, 



Editor. 



CONTKNTS: 



Tossil Botany, HI Dr. L. G. Yates iij 



San Francisco Microscopical Society 215 



Hotel del Coronado 217 



Notes from Colorado T. D. A. Cockerell 2ty 



Fossil Ferns O. D. Walbridge 217 



Great Age for Fishes 218 



A Cure for Wounds 218 



"Thickness of Clouds 219 



Editorial , 219 



A Glance at Books 219 



Among the Magazines 220 



Do Birds Fly Down.... 221 



The Restless Sea "A Poem," L, M. Smith 221 



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