SECRETARY'S REPORT 



Three reg-nlar monthly meetings of the Academy have been held 

 this season, viz.: 



1. October 13, 1913. Lecturer, Ford A. Carpenter, LL.D., Sub- 

 ject, "Weather in the Making." 



2. November 10, 1913. Lecturer. Mr. Adolphe Danziger. Sub- 

 ject, "What the Orient Gave to the Occident." 



3. December 8, 1913. Lecturer, Dr. A. G. Smith. Subject, "The 

 Parking Systems of Progressive Cities." 



Meetings of the various sections have been held to date as fol- 

 lows: 



1. October 14, 1913, Biological Section. Speaker, Prof. Ralph 

 Benton. Subject, "Bees." 



2. November 11, 1913, Biological Section. Speaker, Mr. H. S. 

 Swarth. Subject, "Birds of Southern California;" also, S. Stillman 

 Berry, PhD., subject, "Cephalopods." 



3. November 24, 1913, Zoological Section. Speakers, Mr. William 

 Wood, Dr. A. G. Smith and Commissioner B. R. Jones. Subjects, 

 "Shade Trees in Parkings and Lawns," "Our Horticultural Problems 

 of Southern California," and "Our Lisect Pests and How we Deal 

 with Them." 



4. December 9, 1913, Biologcial Section. Speaker, Mr. J. O. 

 Beebe. Subject, "Crinoids" (Fossil "sea-lilies.") 



Directors meetings have been held as follows: 



1. July 9, 1913, at the University Club, Los Angeles. 



2. September 5, 1913, at Hotel Alexandria. 



3. December 8, 1913, at the State Normal School. 



The following committees have been appointed by the president: 



Publication Committee — Holdridge O. Collins, Dr. Anstruther 

 Davidson, William A. Spalding. 



Finance Committee — Samuel J. Keese, William A. Spalding, 

 George W. Parsons. 



Program Committee — William H. Knight, George W. Parsons, 

 William L. Watts. 



The following members have been elected Fellows of the Acad- 

 emy: Arthur Burnett Benton, F. A. L A.; Prof. Charles Lincoln Ed- 

 wards, PhD.; Robert LeRoy Beardsley. 



Numerous publications and exchanges have been received by the 

 Academy and the work of the Secretary's ofifice is steadily increasing. 



Respectfully submitted, 



ROBERT LeROY BEARDSLEY, 



Secretary. 



MONTHLY MEETING 

 October, 1913 



The lectures for the season of 1913-1914 began Monday evening, 

 October 13th, at Symphony Hall, 232 South Hill street, on which 

 occasion Ford A. Carpenter, Local Forecaster of the United States 

 ■\Veather Bureau, and member of the American Climatological Asso- 

 ciation, gave a lecture, illustrated with lantern slides, on "Weather in 

 the Making." 



The lecturer was introduced by Mr. Arthur B. Benton, President 

 of the Academy, and spoke of the causes and efifects of the record- 

 breaking weather of 1913 — the first killing frost in January, the first 

 phenomenal flood in February, the first hot night in September, and 

 the first aerial soundings in California. The lecturer also gave an 

 account of the history and organization of the United States Weather 



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