77/c [Vest American Scientist. 



3 



Patula Hermanni Pfr. A colony 

 of this minute shell was found near 

 Rio Frio. 



BULIMULAS ALTERNATUS Say. Dr. 



Herrera, of the Museo Nacional, gave 

 me a few specimens of this shell, which 

 1 did not meet in the field. 



Glandina guttata Cr. & Fisch, 

 near Rio Frio? 



G. PLICATULA Pfr. In the moun- 

 tains north of Cuautla? 



Planorbis tenuis Phil. 



LlMN^EA ATTENUATA Say. 



Physa Boucardi Cr. & Fisch. 

 With the two preceding species, com- 

 mon in the City of Mexico. 



The above shells have all been iden- 

 tified by Wm. H. Dall of the U. S. 

 National Museum, to whom I am in- 

 debted for many similar favors. 



C. R. Orcutt. 



A MONSTROSITY. 



Abnormal growths always possess a 

 certain interest to horticulturists as 

 well as botanists. We illustrate herewith 

 a curious plant of Pilocereus senilis 

 the old man cactus, as it appeared when 

 discovered in the state of Hidalgo, 

 Mexico. This plant was shipped to 

 Paris, where it attracted considerable 

 attention among cactus fanciers. 



EDITORIAL. 



For years we have preserved care- 

 fully every book, magazine, newspaper, 

 pamphlet, and even catalogues, and 

 circulars — many literary productions 

 that generally meet destruction, but 

 which have a value in a library which 

 aims to be complete and qf use to fu- 

 ture ages. It is hoped that this mater- 

 ial may ultimately find a permanent 

 home in some public institution; in 

 the meantime we shall appreciate any 

 contributions of literature, and in ad- 

 dition to our thanks we offer liberal 

 exchanges in return of seeds, bulbs, 

 native cacti, advertising space in this 

 magazine, or subscriptions to the same. 

 Nearly every one accumulates in time 

 a mass of literature useless in part to 

 the owner— but do not destroy— we 

 want it saved. 



We have several thousand duplicate 

 magazines, books and pamphlets, which 

 we will also exchange, or donate to any 

 public institution that will refund to 

 us the postage. Among them we name : 



The Semi -Tropical Planter — com- 

 plete sets. The Great Southwest — sets 

 incomplete. The Young Men's Jour- 

 nal — nearly complete. The West 

 American Scientist — about 50 odd num- 

 bers. The North American Review — 

 about 50 odd numbers. 10th Annual 

 Report Calif. State Mining Bureau. 

 Miscellaneous books, magazines and 

 pamphlets. 



THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS. 



The broad roads to a successful industrial re" 

 form, based upon 70 years' experience in En- 

 gland, are thus summed up by the Co-operative 

 News: 1— The establishment of co-operative 

 societies for supplying the wants of their mem- 

 bers of every kind, whether by purchasing 

 goods wholesale or manufacturing or producing 

 these goods themselves; 2— the establishment 

 of federal associations, such as grain milling 

 and wholesal societies, for supplying the re- 

 tail societies with goods that the retail societies 

 cannot otherwise obtain so advantageously, and 

 to manufacture or produce these goods when it 

 is found advisable to do so; 3— in doing the<=e 

 things, to pay capital its fair remuneration and 

 pay fair wages to the workers, besides treat- 

 ing the latter in that considerate manner that 

 all co-operators would desire to be treated, and 

 which is the golden rule ordained by Christ; 4— 

 employing surplus capital in employing co-ope- 

 rators'to produce for the supply of the outside 

 market, whether in our own or foreign coun- 

 tries, in order that labor may be justly treated 

 and receive its full reward. 



INTEREST. 

 One of the prime factors in our present in- 

 dustrial condition is interest ; 80 per cent, of the 

 wealth of the U. S. is interest bearing today, 

 and our annual interest charge is $3,000,000,000 

 or $800,000,000 more than our annual increase of 

 wealth! In other words, capital not only de- 

 mands and receives its share in the increase of 

 our n itional wealth, but the working man's as 

 well, besides drawing to itself $800,000,000.00 of 

 the past accumulations of labo' - yearlv ! The fi- 

 nal result can be nothing short of the industrial 

 enslavement ot the people, if the present trend 

 of events is not arrested,— and it is in co opera- 

 tion that we must find the moans of arresting 

 and abolishing interest. Co-operation is success- 

 ful in so far as it destroys this factor, in which 

 is vested the power of capital— for, shorn of in- 

 terest capital is weak, like Samson of old when 

 shorn of his beard. 



NOTE9AND NEWS. 



P. of. J. A. Miller of Stanford University has 

 accepted a call to the Univers ; ty of Indiana. 



The peach blossom has been selected by a vote 

 of the school children of Delaware as the floral 

 emblem ot that state. 



Prof. Edward Lee Greene, for many years 

 identified with botanical work on the Pacific 

 Coast, has become identified with the Catholic 

 University, of Washington, D. C. 



Prof. E.'VV. Hi I sard, of the State University, 

 has been quite ill but is now convalescent. 



Prof. Symington has resigned from Stanford 

 University to go to Amherst College. 



