"I give and bequeath to the Southern CaHfornia Academy 

 of Sciences, (of which I am a member at this date) the sum of 

 fen thousand dollars, suggesting that said sum be loaned on 

 good security, and that the interest thereon be used to defray 

 the expense of free lectures, or other proper entertainments bear- 

 ing on scientific topics." 



In due course of administration of his Estate, this amount 

 will be paid to our Directors, and the income therefrom devoted 

 to the purposes designated in said bequest. 



Our Bulletins continue to attract attention, particularly 

 from Scientific Institutions, not only in our own land, but in 

 Countries all over the world. I may mention that we have 

 exchanges with various dominions of Europe, in Asia, Australia, 

 Japan, the Philippines, the Argentine Republic, Cuba and Mex- 

 ico, and no month elapses without requests from individuals and 

 Libraries or Scientific Bodies, for copies of our Bulletins, partic- 

 ularly of the old issues. Our papers upon the Flora of Cali- 

 fornia are the ones for which requests are most frequently 

 made. 



In former years, insufficient care to preserve extra num- 

 bers of the Bulletins resulted in the exhaustion of valuable parts 

 of Volumes 3, 4, 5 and 6, and at this day the Academy has but 

 four complete files of the Bulletin. We have three other files, 

 lacking only certain numbers of the Volumes from 3 to 6. It 

 is earnestly hoped, if any member of the Academy has numbers 

 of these volumes, which are not desired for further personal 

 use, that they will be transmitted to the Secretary, to be added 

 to the incomplete Volumes. 



The Bulletin is published but two times each year, January 

 and July, and these two editions compose a Volume. If finan- 

 cial conditions shall so warrant, it has been proposed that the 

 Bulletin be issued three times each year. 



The Board of Directors deemed it proper and even neces- 

 sary to have an ofifice, centrally situated, for the transaction of 

 the work of the Academy, and in April last. Room 719 in the 

 San Fernando Building, corner of Fourth and Main streets, was 

 rented, where the Secretary can be found during business hours. 

 To this place were conveyed all the Bulletins we have, and many 

 valuable volumes of reference and exchanges, but the bulk of 

 our Library remains in the Museum Building in Exposition 

 Park, where it was transferred in 1912. The present business 

 headquarters are not large enough for its shelving. 



During the time of the concession to the Academy by Mrs. 

 Ross, for excavations in La Brea Rancho, many complete skele- 

 tons were found and mounted, and they are now upon exhibi- 

 tion in the Museum. In addition to these, thousands of fossils 

 were exhumed, partially cleaned and boxed, and they now re- 

 pose in the basement of the Museum building and marked as 

 the property of this Academy. There are some among us who 



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