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Volume IV. Whoi>e^No. 32. 



THE 



We^t •^ i^mefican -t- ^cieqlii^t. 



DECEMBER, 1887, 



CONTKNTS: 



Reminiscences of a Naturalist, I R. E. C. Stearns 223 



A few Words to the Young Ornithologists of 



California L. Belding 227 



California Rock Salt 230 



A Sharp Family, I C. R. Orcutt 233 



Notes and News 235 



A Few Common Minerals and Rocks G. G. Groff 236 



To find the Capacity of Water Tanks Josiah Keep 237 



Description of a New Hemilenca W. G. Wright 238 



The Trouslot Collection 239 



Agassiz Association, San Jacinto 240 



The Origin of Salt 241 



How the Platypus Breeds 242 



The Resurrection Plant 243 



Aboriginal Fish Hooks Stephen Bowers 243 



A Collecting Trip... H. R.Taylor 245 



The Hoosier Naturalist 246 



Editorial 246 



Among the Magazines 248 



A Glance at Books 248 



Perseverance Island 249 



Necrology 250 



C. R. ORCUTT, - Publisher. 

 SAN DIEGO, - - - CALIFORNIA. 



I»jrice, 10 Oeuts. 



[Bstered at the Poitoffloe at San Diego aS;Beeond-clas8 matter.] 



