honor and prestige, his love for the old-time organization is 

 always expressed anew. I venture he will acknowledge that 

 his years of earnest effort in this Academy constituted his pre- 

 paratory course for the lecture field. 



Another member, Mr. W. H. Knight, several times President 

 and always a faithful worker, has pursued the unostentatious 

 tenor of his way, contributing to the press and achieving a 

 position as authority on all matters within his field. He is 

 the stafif writer who is called upon to give scientific informa- 

 tion without sensationalism and present only facts that are 

 accredited. 



Another old-time member. Prof. AV. L. Wafts, has worked 

 no less assiduously for the Academy, and in his profession as 

 geologist has borne an important part in the development of 

 the great oil fields of California. 



Mr. George W. Parsons, another stand-by member, has borne 

 the heat and burden of the day along his professional lines, and, 

 as the result of years of persistent effort, has secured the erec- 

 tion of sign boards on the great Colorado desert, which will 

 doubtless be the means of averting untold suffering and saving 

 many lives in years to come. 



There are several others whom I should mention. A few 

 have gone over the great divide : Dr. Comstock, a faithful sci- 

 entist, and for a term or two Secretary of the Academy ; Dr. 

 Whiting, long-time head of the Biological vSection and Dean of 

 the College of Osteopathy, who passed out this year as the 

 result of a lamentable accident. 



Dr. A. B. Ulrey, of the University of Southern California, 

 who served several terms as Director, has done most valuable 

 work in his microscopic study of the sting-ray. 



Air. S. J. Keese, our long-time and indispensable Treasurer, 

 aside from building up the local business of one of the great 

 electrical manufacturing concerns, has found time to achieve 

 results in optics, micro-photography and color photography. 



Prof. Melville Dozier deserves enrolment among the men 

 who never lose interest in scientific matters and never fail in 

 a responsibility to the Academy. 



Our President, Arthur B. Benton, now entering upon his 

 second term, has proved his loyalty and efficiency, and in these 

 passing years has contributed in no small degree to the artistic 

 and romantic architecture of Southern California. 



Our stand-by Secretary, for lo, these many years, and faith- 

 ful editor of the Bulletin, Mr. Holdridge O. Collins, just back 

 from a trip around the world, is entitled to congratulations ; 

 so also is the Academy. AVe are glad that Mr. Collins found 

 our Bulletin on file in the archives of some of the learned soci- 

 eties of the Orient, and that everywhere he went he was the 

 recipient of distinguished attention from men of science and 

 letters. 



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