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trips. These opened March 7th, 

 Luther Burbank's birthday, at Ver- 

 dugo Canyon, with eighteen present ; 

 Point Firmin (San Pedro on the 

 coast ) March 21st, with some fifty 

 present ; Big Santa Anita Canyon 

 April 25th, with twenty-three present, 

 and Verdugo Canyon ( second trip) 

 May 16th, with eleven present. It was 

 too late in the year for a large attend- 

 ance. Besides these, there were three 

 more or less independent trips — that is, 

 semi-Agassiz trips, since members of 

 the AA were in the majority. < hit- 

 was up Mt. Wilson and return via Mt. 

 Lowe. This was a three days' jour- 

 ney, and five were present. Another 

 was up the Arroyo Seco, with fourteen 

 present ; and to Whittier Entomology 

 and Plant Pathology Laboratory, and 

 Puenta Canyon, eleven attending. De- 

 sirable things on the docket are a bul- 

 letin board for current items of bio- 

 logical and nature study interest, the 

 framing of our Charter and engravure 

 of Agassiz, a Chapter pennant of the 

 AA colors, and an appropriate local 

 pin. 



The annual election of officers took 

 place on the same evening. The new 

 officers are: President, Miss Lena 

 Kirkpatrick ; Vice-President, Mr. El- 

 mer Higgins ; Secretary - Treasurer, 

 Miss Jessie Mauzy ; Business Man- 

 ager, Mr. Alfred Cookman. 



I may say unofficially that Miss 



Kirkpatrick is an exceptionally bright 

 young woman with splendid executive 

 ability. I feel safe in predicting that 

 under her guidance we shall have a 

 successful year. On her election she 

 was the recipient of a large bouquet of 

 golden coreopsis tied with a green 

 bow, the Agassiz colors, and symboli- 

 cal of the purposes of the Chapter — 

 a fuller and deeper appreciation of na- 

 ture as well as of the work of Luther 

 Burbank. 



I took the opportunity to speak of 

 the ideals of Louis Agassiz and hence 

 of the ideals of the AA, especially em- 

 phasizing three points — first, Agassiz's 

 insistence on the study of things and 

 of nature at work, his relation to the 

 laboratory and to the nature study 

 movements; secondly, his strong sci- 

 entific sense in accepting generaliza- 

 tions only on the actual evidence at 

 hand, his tentative attitude or sus- 

 pended judgment, and his willingness 

 to change on receipt of new evidence ; 

 also his indefatigable energy in col- 

 lecting unbiased data ; and thirdly his 

 reverence for nature. 



I might mention in this connection 

 three other lectures given this term 

 under the auspices of the AA and at- 

 tended by an average of between 

 eighty and one hundred students — two 

 by myself on the life and work of 

 Louis Agassiz, and one by Mr. Joseph 

 Grinned, Jr.. on butterflies. 



LUNCH HOUR OF THE LUTHER BURBANK CHAPTER IN THEIR CELEBRATION OF LUTHER 



BURBANK'S BIRTHDAY. 



