THE WEST AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
News reaches the editor that Mr. Wal- 
- ter Bryant is authority. for the ee t 
W 
of Science 
discontinued its subse rar and refused 
to pay for some numbers which had been 
_ordered—but that has not prevented | . 
“The West American Scientist” from 
appearing every month this year just the 
same. The Academy is unique in being 
the only scientific institution in America 
or Europe that has age ” exchange 
public ues with ‘* The st }merican 
t dit is only se that its 
pines on the 
f the ‘- The 
West dian Scientist ’”’ is ge oldest 
scientific journal west of the Mississippi, 
and one of the oldest periodicals in South- 
ern Culifurnia, and the first magazine 
published in San Diego. 
COLLECTING FOR AN AQUARIUM. 
Collecting for an aquarium is great 
sport. Equipped with Peat Paget 
ing tin pails or preserve-jars, 
Bets out pe een ola dnc 
must be worn, since sea-water will spoil 
“new ones ; aad old: shoes, for salt water 
m the bottom of the 
Cae ee 
and before the tide comes in you w 
st 
sort out your specimens, discard all weak 
and sickly animals, and p 
ones ia flat, earthenware ss eee 
with sea- eal: where th n bee 
amined at leisure, and the 
taken out and 
ea- 3, 
aquarium.”’—From 
Seas ;’? Demorest’s Magazine for July. 
All lupines are easy plants to cultivaiee 
says ‘‘The Garden,” a valua ee 
illustrated journal of norsiceirone and ar- 
boriculture from England. ‘The Gar- 
den’? recommends growing 
uilegias and verbascums 
masses for a fine effect. 
lupines, 
in large 
There is more per at in this section of — 
country than al) other diseases put togeth 
and until the last ace years Was supposed to pe 
eat many 
t the healthy 
ee an 
h loca espana t, 
ro 
aan for sat a ers 
Fit ci & CO., Toledo, 0. 
#@- old by Hise tgs 
Wee LON, JAVA, BORNE O AND 
late, Soerabaa, Java. 
Secunda 
“LYON & COBB 
‘Los. 
‘tide, examine every 
of sea-weed 
