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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
Questions of general interest will be answered under this 
department as far as possible; kindly inclose stamped and ad- 
dressed envelope, when a personal answer is desired. In send- 
ing specimens for names subscribers are requested to send at 
least three specimens of each species, when possible, to number 
each specimen so that we may report names by number (no 
specimens will be returned as a rule), and to pay all expenses 
of transportation. Specimens sent will become the property of 
the West American Museum. 
(J)—Have you for sa'e copies of the California botany of 
Lrewer and Watson? H.M. H. 
A—No, but can obtain the two volumes, new, for $12.00. 
EDITORIAL. 
West America has existed for many years, but prior to 
the christening of the West American Scientist, we are not 
aware of its having been so called—western America, west 
coast, or Pacific slope, being the familiar ways of designation. 
Perhaps some of our older readers may remember an earlier 
use of the combination, which we have failed to find—a term 
now universally adopted. Sixteen years before the public the 
West American Scientist still continues alone in its field, the 
only journal of general science published west of the Atlantic 
sea-board states! 
The power of God is unlimited. This is our simple belief. 
God is Love.Christianity is the embodiment of Love. We be- 
lieve God will answer prayer, will give us what we ask in fatth— 
but that it is not our place to demand. We need to learn to 
say: ‘Thy will be done’—not insist on our own way, regard- 
less of what He deems best. But “Christian Science” is neither 
science nor Christianity, and the West American Scientist is not 
«ne of its organs. Our pages are not open to vain argument 
