During the short period thai has elapsed since the election 

 of the present Secretary, he has had numerous requests from 

 Libraries, Universities, Academies of Science, and other learned 

 Bodies all over the United States, not only for specific num- 

 bers, but for complete sets of the Bulletin. He has been 

 unable to satisfy the demand, as there are only six complete 

 sets remaining among the property of the Academy. There 

 are. however, ten other sets nearly complete, some of them 

 lacking lint two numbers; and in another place will lie found 

 a call for these missing publications. 



A Few Words Relating to the Academy. 



In 1891 it had its inception as The Southern California 

 Science Association, which designation was changed in 1895 

 to the present name. The Pounders were few in numbers and 

 weak in financial resources, but enthusiastic in their determina- 

 tion to effect a permanent Scientific Organization. Many of 

 the original associates in this work are today among the most 

 active and zealous members of the Academy. 



Through the long years of trials, discouragement and pecuni- 

 ary difficulties they at no time lost courage, and from their 

 own liberality they met all deficiencies in the expenses of the 

 work - . No Macedonian cry of "Come over and help us'' was 

 ever heard from them, and we. the later members, are now 

 enjoying the results of their splendid labors, which have placed 

 this Academy of Sciences upon an enduring basis. Surely the 

 unselfish spirit, free-handed liberality and courageous inde- 

 pendence of those men and women may warrant them in de- 

 manding as the motto of this Corporation, "Nostra Tuebimur 

 Ipsi" for the future, they have so strenuously lived up to it 

 in the past. 



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For many years it has been suspected by Astronomers 

 that there is a planet of our system, moving in an orbit beyond 

 that of Neptune, but there has been no Adams or Leverrier 

 to demonstrate its position. 



On the first day of this month the news was flashed around 

 the world that Professor Pickering, Director of the Harvard 

 Observatory, had found upon the sensitive plates an ultra 

 Neptune planet in the Constellation Gemini, and very near the 

 place at which Uranus was discovered by William Herschel. 

 All Astronomers will await, with intense interest, the verifi- 

 cation of this discovery. h. o. c. 



