Editorial — Notes and News. jj 



(V. 2-4) : ' They are certainly Cyprinodon macularins, B, and 

 G. ; C. Californiensis, a later name, may be based on young 

 males. The description is too poor to be certain.' — The editor 

 collected in January, at Todos Santos Bay, Lower California, 

 two species of coral, one, a small branching red species, and the 

 other apparently identical (though the specimens were much 

 smaller) with a species collected by J. J. Rivers, at Monterey, 

 in 1884 (Ballanophyllia elegans, Verrill). — We have to acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of valuable publications from many sources, 

 and our thanks are especially due for such favors to Drs. C. 

 C. Parry, R. W. Shufeldt, D. S. Jordan and C. A. Greene, 

 Messrs. Coulter & Rose, William Danbar, i . D. A. Cock- 

 erell, Sereno Watson, Geo. F. Kunz, J. G. Lemmon, W G, 

 Farlow, Wm. Trelease, Alexis A. Julien, G. W. Lichtenthaler, 

 F. A. Sampson, S. W. Davis and others. — An interesting paper 

 on cremation is presented in this issue from the pen of Geo. 

 William Barnes, M. D., who for so many years has been presi- 

 dent of the San Diego Society of Natural History. The subject 

 is worthy of careful consideration. — The Colorado Biological 

 Association is doing good work for that State under its able sec- 

 retary and our valued correspondent, Theo. D. A. Cockerell, 

 who assists us with our Bibliography, which will hereafter be an 

 important feature of this magazine. — It is not improbable that 

 the West American Scientist will be adopted by the Asso- 

 ciation as its official organ. We aim to make the magazine a 

 true representative of the scientific activity of societies and 

 individuals in the West, and shall cordially welcome co-opera- 

 tion. — In securing the services of experienced publishers; 

 with every facility for its regular and creditable appearance, the 

 Scientist enters upon a new era of prosperity. Our magazine 

 was the first to be issued from the City of San Diego, but it is 

 distinctively West American — not local — in character, and it is 

 fitting that we should be equally represented in what are destined 

 to be the two greatest cities of the Pacific Coast. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, who has been stationed for a number oi 

 years at Ft. Wingate, N. M., where he has done much valuable 

 work for science, has returned to his home in Washington, 

 D. C. 



W. G. Wright is making the acquaintance of the butterflies of 

 Mexico, and will no doubt return with many new and beautiful 

 forms from the islands and coast of the Gulf of California, beside 

 adding otherwise to the fauna and flora of the regions visited. 



Three new species of fish have been added to our San Diego 

 fauna the present winter ; and two others, one a rock cod 

 (Sebastichthys chlorostictus), previously known from Monterey 



