scientifically classified and arranged for exhibition in a very 

 pleasing and satisfactory manner. 



Professor Alliot's ArchcCological and luhnological inves- 

 tigations have not been confined to the pre-historic races of our 

 Pacific Coast and the adjoining islands. He has devoted an 

 exacting study of the Cliff dwellings of Arizona and New 

 Mexico, and most strenuous labor in exploring the almost 

 inaccessible homes in those great gorges, whose origin is so 

 concealed in the untranslated records of the immense eons of 

 the past, that no one can say with certainty that these tremen- 

 dous mountain gashes were caused by erosion, seismic disturb- 

 ances or volcanic convulsions. Some of the results of these 

 labors were exemplified by an illustrated discourse upon "Our 

 Archaeological Inheritance," before the Academv on Februarv 

 11, 1911. 



In our Bulletin for January. 1912, we presented a paper 

 by Prof. Alliot upon "Primitive Eugenics." It was confined 

 principally to the marriage regulations of the Seri Indians of 

 Til)ur()n Island and the adjacent coast in the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and, as stated by the Editor, it was the first time this subject' 

 had been treated in a Scientific publication nn the Pacific Coast. 

 ^Xe were surprised at the attention which this ]ia]:ier attracted 

 and the ultimate material result of its publication. Eugenic 

 societies were organized and notices were frequentlv read in 

 the newspapers, of lectures upon this modern branch of Science. 



It is a subject upon which, as Sir Roger de Coverly re- 

 marked, "much can be said on both sides," and Prof. David 

 Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University, in a discourse 

 upon Eugenics, delivered before this Acadeni\- u])on April 6, 

 1912, took a very ])rcnounced ])osition in opposition to the prac- 

 tice. 



TXTE find it a mournful duty to record herein the loss of 

 members who have reached their journey's end, passing 

 along that great thoroughfare which we all must travel. Not 

 one of them but had achieved distinction in his chosen avoca- 

 tion, and thev all had done something to make life sweeter and 

 lovelier for their companions and associates. The onlv thing 

 we can do is to pay our weak tribute to their ^\•orth, but for 

 those who have crept silently to rest, 



"The Gloving Finger writes; and, having writ. 

 Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor A\'it 



Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, 

 Nor all your Tears wash out a W'ord of it." 

 At Los Angeles, on March 31, 1914. departed this life 

 Thomas Augustus Rex, M. D., for many years a modest but 

 zealous member of this Academy. His life was devoted to his 

 profession and, at the close of the War of the Rebellion, he was 

 Acting Assistant Surgeon of the United States Army. 



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