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apparatus, died at his home in Albany, N Y, May 13th, aged 
seventy years. He was born in Dresden, Saxony, February 23d, 
1819. 
Professor Walley states as his belief that tuberculosis might be 
transmitted by fowls’ eggs. 
The foundation walls of the front building of the Academy of 
Sciences are now completed, so that work on the superstructure 
of both front and back buildings is now in progress.— Buz/ding 
Aavertiser, San Francisco, June, 1889. 
The California Florist and Gardener has been consolidated 
with the Pacific Rural Press. 
“Our Greatest Inventor” is the title which John Habberton 
gives to a comprehensive article upon Ericsson in the July num- 
ber of the Lippincott’s Magazine. The builder of the Monitor, 
and the inventor of the propeller and the caloric engine, has cer- 
tainly great claims upon the gratitude not 7 of this country 
but of the world. 
An instructive article upon ‘‘ Farming among the Pueblo In- 
dians,’’ describing the primitive methods of agriculture and the 
happy- -go-lucky manner of life among that ancient Indian tribe, 
is given in the American Agriculturist for July. A quaint illus- 
tration shows the buildings of a Pueblo Indian community at 
Taos, New Mexico, the houses joined together, even built one on 
top of the other, having few windows and doors and generally 
entered through the roof by a ladder — just as their ancestors 
built their homes centuries ago. Their farming methods are 
equally behind the times, but are carried on in a manner fully 
satisfactory to themselves. 
Dr. Edward Palmer has been severely sick at the hospital of 
the Good Samaritan in San Diego. His friends will be glad: to 
learn that he is better at this writing. 
The Department of the interior, Census Office, Washington, 
D. C., requests all members of the medical professions to apply © 
for physician’ s registers, now ready. Every M. D. should assist 
in furnishing the statistics called for, and should apply at once. 
The only way to identify the nest and eggs of any small bird is 
to shoot either parent. This is especially true of humming- 
birds. L. Belding. 
Dr. Eigenmann reports an earthquake at San Diego at 3 A. M. 
June 25th. 
Dr. Parry has been visiting the Lemmon herbarium at Oakland. 
Dr. Harkness, president of the California Academy of Sciences, 
recently visited San Diego. 
