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are here said not to do well, only two or three per cent of the 
seed germinating. 
Silver mines yielding 1,600 ounces to the ton have been dis- 
covered cropping out sixty miles south of here, in Mexico. The 
vein has already been traced for fourteen miles! A new railroad 
to the Mormon colony in Mexico is one of the probabilities cf the 
near future. 
The new colonies are likely to increase largely the acreage 
that is being planted here to fruit—deciduous trees and vines 
taking the lead. The horticultural development of the country 
is in its infancy—just at the turning point it is said, passing from 
experiment to reasonable certainty. — 
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 
Studies in the Botany of the Southeastern United States. I. 
By John K. Small. Reprinted from Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxi. 
pp. 15-20; plates 171-1 
Biographical sketch of Charles Christopher Parry, by C. H. 
Preston, together with a list of papers published by Dr. C. C. 
Parry, prepared by Mrs. C. C. Parry. Reprinted from Proc. 
_ Davenport (Ja.) Acad. Sci., vi. pp. 35-52, with portrait. 
List of plants of Los Angeles County, Cal. By Anstruther 
Davidson, M.D. Price 25 cents. 20 pp. 8vo. 
Extinct Monsters. A brief account of some of the most re- 
markable forms of animal life in the past history of the earth. 
By Stephen Bowers, Fallbrook, California: 1894. 30 pp. 8vo. 
with plate of Triceratops prorsus, and portrait of the author. 
Notes on recent collections of North American land, fresh 
water and marine shells received from the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. By Robert E. C. Stearns, Ph.D. From aPC Pro- 
ceedings of the U. S. Nat’l Museum, xvi. pp. 743-755. 
Description of a new species of blind-snakes paar EE 
from the Congo Free State. By Leonard Stejneger. From 
Same, pp. 709-810. 
_ Remarks on Japanese Snails. By Leonard Stejneger. From 
same, pp. 765-769. 
