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Object. Social intercourse ; collection and preservation of information connected 

 with the early settlement and early subsequent history of the country. 



Meetings. Monthly, ist Monday; annual meeting, July 7; anniversary celebration, 

 Sept. 9. 



Membership. 296 contributing (entrance fee, $10; annual dues, if resident in San 

 Francisco, $6, non-resident, $5) ; 486 life ($110) ; 7 honorary. 



Publications. 



Anniversary addresses, and annual reports of the officers of the society. 

 See Griffin, Bibl. Amer. hist. soc. 



Southern California Academy of Sciences. 



Address. Los Angeles, Cal. Secretary: B. R. Baumgardt, 116 N. Broad- 

 way. 



History. Founded in 1891 as the Southern California Science Associa- 

 tion; incorporated Mar. 21, 1902, under present title. Comprises sec- 

 tions of biology, astronomy, geology, botany, and agricultural chemistry. 



Ref.: Historical sketch. (In Constitution, by-laws, and list of members. 1894/95. 

 Los Angeles. 1894.) 



Object. Promotion of intercourse among those cultivating science; rousing of pub- 

 lic interest in the results of technical investigation by the dissemination of correct 

 information relating thereto; study of local natural features and phenomena; 

 conservation of material illustrating local phases. 



Meetings. Monthly, ist Monday, July and August excepted. Section meetings also 

 monthly on Mondays. 



Membership. 183 active members and fellows (entrance fee, $i ; fellowship fee, $i ; 

 annual dues, $3) ; 4 life members and fellows ($50) ; 5 honorary. The constitu- 

 tion provides also for corresponding and affiliated members and for patrons con- 

 tributing $500. 



Publications. 

 BULLETIN . . . v. I-IV, 1902-05. Los Angeles, 1902-06. 8. 



v. 1-4, monthly except July, Aug., Sept. v. 5 ff., quarterly. 

 Price: $i per annum; single nos. 25c. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Secretary. 



University of California. 



Address. Berkeley, Cal. President: Benjamin Ide Wheeler. 



History. Founded by act of the State legislature in 1868, succeeding by 

 gift to the lands and buildings of the College of California (a private 

 institution, at Oakland, founded in 1853). Opened for instruction in 

 1869 at Oakland; removed to Berkeley in 1873. 



Ref. : The University of California. A monograph, by H. A. Overstreet. 

 San Francisco, 1904. 8. A history of the College of California. By 

 S. H. Willey. San Francisco, 1887. 4. (Also issued as Papers of the 

 California historical society, v. I, pt. 2.) Illustrated history of the Uni- 

 versity of California, by W. C. Jones, 1868-1895. San Francisco, 1895. fol. 



