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Contents of Volume XIV 



Editorial 5, 35 



The Twenty-third Anniversary of the Academy: 

 Execntive Officers of the Academy: 

 Scientific Agriculture: 

 Excavations at La Brea Rancho: 

 Periodicit}' in Seismic Convulsions: 



A Little Retrospect William A. Spalding 8 



Bancroft Etz Beeman Holdridge 0. Collins, LL. D. 27 



Habits of A Cleptis (Wasp) Anstnitlicr Davidson, CM., M.D. 51 



Ranloni Botanical Notes George L. Mo.vley 52 



Seasonal Periodicity in Earthquakes. . JF////'om A. Spalding 38 



Some Southern California Plants S. B. Parish 12 



Sun Dials in India Holdridge 0. Collins, LL. D. 19 



Two New Mariposas. . . .Anstrufher Daz'idson C. M.. ^L D. 11 



Teratology of the Navel Orange S. B. Parish Afi 



A Zoological Puzzle Holdridge O. Collins, LL. D. 49 



Annual Report of the Secretary ?^ 



Transactions of the Academy 28, 56 



