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or partisan discussion of either politics or religion; while not 
closed to any branch of human thought or study, it deems other 
fields of inquiry pleasanter and more profitable. ‘‘Happv is the 
Man with a hobby,” to whom the world owes much of its mate- 
rial progress and pleasure. 
NOTES AND NEWS. ; 
KEEP, JOSIAH: Mills College, Alameda County, Cal. 
Is engaged on a new edition of his charming book entitled: 
“West Coast Shells.” 
AUTHOR’S CATALOG. 
COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON: Mesilia Park, 
N. M: 
—Catalogo de las Abejas de Mexico. 1899, 20 p. 40¢ 
—F our new Coccidae from Arizona. Can ent, 1900, 129-132. ° 
10¢. 
—Tables for the determination of New Mexico bees. B Un 
NM 1s aP Pe Si. 
—et Henry A. Pilsbry: Ashmunella, a new genus of Helices. 
Phila ac pr 1899. 188-194, f. 25¢ 
—Notes on some southwestern plants. Torr bot cl b 27: 87- 
89 (F 1900). 10¢c. 
—Some notes on the entomology of Prunus. N M aes b 27, 
F32-1 34, 25C: 
—Repori of the entomologist—Part 1. N Maes b 19. 25c. 
STEARNS, ROBERT EDWARDS CARTER: 
— Verification ef the habitat of Conrad’s Mytilus bifurcatus, 
Phila ac pr 1882, 241-2. 10¢. 
—Description of a new species or variety of land snail from 
California. N Y ac annals 1:—3 f (N 1879). 30c. 
—On Helix aspersa in Catiiornia and the geographical distri- 
bution of certain West ..mer-can land-snails, &e. N Y ac annals 
2: 129-139. 40c. 
