Our Academy has advanced with rapid strides into a new 

 and more active' field of work and we have faith to believe 

 that it will be a powerful factor for good in educational and 

 intellectual advancement on the Pacific Coast; and its labors 

 will be appreciated and valued by all the accredited Scientific 

 Bodies of the World. 



Academia nostra magno scientiarum studio pro peritia 

 eondita, in aeternum floreat. 



We have been pleased to note in journals from Rome, very 

 flattering comments on the progressive work of Professor P. 

 Giovanni Ilagen, S. J. Director of the Vatican Observatory. 

 On June 6, 1910, Professor Ilagen was elected an Honorary 

 Member of this Academy, and in his letter of acceptance, he 

 notified us that we had been placed on the distributive list 

 for the publications of the Vatican Observatory. 



For many years the mystery of the twisting pines, along 

 the Pacific Coast, has been a problem for the Forestry Com- 

 missions and the scientific Botanist. Dr. Davidson seems to 

 have untied this Gordian knot and now, like the showing of 

 Columbus how to stand an egg on its point, the solution seems 

 very simple. We recommend Dr. Davidson's paper to the 

 curious.- 



As Lord Byron awoke one morning and found himself 

 famous, so the assemblage of the world's distinguished 

 Astronomers in Los Angeles last August, was an event that 

 gave this city, at a bound, a great advance on the list of places 

 famous for their encouragement of the study of the most 

 ancient and most interesting of the sciences. Using a techni- 

 cal word of navigation, we may be said to have established a 

 position of new departure in our intellectual progress. We 

 have outgrown the condition of a rural community, and prob- 

 ably at this time, perhaps, with the exception of Chicago, 

 the name of no city is more generally known than Los Angeles. 



Professor Hale's work on Mount Wilson and the fame of 

 Mr. Hooker's one hundred inch reflector, attracted to us such 

 a body of scientists, so profoundly learned and skilled in their 

 several lines of investigation, as seldom meets in convention. 



This Academy of Sciences is the only institution in the 

 southwestern part of the United States that issues a regular 

 publication, containing relations of investigations in all 

 branches of Science, and it is eminently proper, that a perma- 



