TheiWestiAmericaniScientist. 



Volume XVI. 



December igo6. 



Whole Number / j/ 



EDITORIAL. 



In commencing a new volume of 

 this magazine we wish first to thank 

 its friends and contributors, whose 

 aid in the past has rendered its publi- 

 cation possible. As to the future, if 

 present assurances do not fail, we 

 hope to accomplish the ambitious 

 task we have set ourselves, which 

 will convert its pages into a vast 

 cyclopaedia of West American biol- 

 ogy, and a history of the progress of 

 science on the Pacific Coast. The 

 co-operation , of every reader is de- 

 sired. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



San Diego Marine Biological Associ- 

 ation: 



It is announced that the gift of 

 Miss Ellen B. Scripps, of fifty thous- 

 and dollars, for a new building, is now 

 available, and it is hoped to complete 

 the structure by August, 1907. 



The newly elected directors are: — 

 Dr. Fred Baker, President. 

 Prof. W. E, Ritter, Scientific Director. 

 Julius Wangenheim, Treasurer. 

 F. W. Kelsey, Secretary. 

 Miss Ellen B. Scripps. 

 Edward W. Scripps. 



Brandegee Herbarium and Library: 



Announcement is made of the gift 

 of the Brandegee herbarium, consist- 

 ing of some 12 5,000 sheets, and the 

 valuable botanical library associated 

 with it, to the California State Uni- 

 versity, at Berkeley, California, by 

 Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee. 



Calamintha Cliaiidleri. 



T. S. Brandegee, Zoe 5:195 (Ag 

 1905), describes this as follows: — 

 "Stems frutescent, branching, 1 m. 

 high, forming clumps, upper parts 

 pubescent: leaves orbicular or broad- 

 ly ovate, with truncate or cuneate 

 base, obtuse, crenate-serrate or entire, 

 1 cm. long and broad, slightly pubes- 

 cent on the upper face, more so on 

 the lower: petioles pubescent, 5 mm. 

 long: flowers single or in 2-4-flowered 

 cymes in the axils of the leaves; 

 peduncles and pedicels 1-2 mm. long: 

 bracts linear-lanceolate: calyx tubu- 

 lar-campanulate, slightly bilabiate, 

 6-7 mm. long; the teeth about 1 

 mm. long, triangular, acuminate, 

 those of the lower lip slightly longer: 

 corolla 13 mm. long, pubescent out- 

 side, cream-white; the tube straight, 

 as long as the calyx; lobes of the 

 lcwer lip short: stamens conniving in 

 pairs: style bearing a few scattered 

 hairs nearly its whole length. Col- 

 lected by H. P. Chandler near San 

 Diego, 'California, on Mount San 

 Miguel, May 21, 1904." 



WANTS. 



The director of the United States 

 Geological Survey, Washington, D. C?, 

 wishes to obtain numbers 1, 2, 70-7 3, 

 9 6 and 97 of the West American Sci- 

 entist to complete their set. 



The librarian of the New York 

 botanical garden wishes numbers 1, 

 2, 4, 9, 11, 96 and 97 of the West 

 American Scientist. 



The Library of Congress lacks num- 



