RROCBEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 



Vol. VII, Nos. 12 and 13, pp. 319-364. pis. 34-38 June 15, 1918 



XII 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY 



FOR THE YEAR 1917 ^vs""'-" 



\^ AUG 28 19:;^ "^ 



C. E. Grunsky V /h 

 President of the Academy\^f'/Q^ i Ml^%^'<^^^^ 



During the year 1917 there has been an accession of 28 new 

 members, and the Academy lost by death 10, by resignation 13, 

 and by being dropped for arrearages in dues 28. 



Early in the year came the last call to Mr. Theodore H. 

 Hittell, whose long and earnest work for the Academy, and 

 whose devotion to its interests, have been and are keenly ap- 

 preciated by all who have been in close touch with Academy 

 affairs. Later in the year Mr. Lyman Belding, well known for 

 his work in ornithology, passed away and also Mr. Edward 

 Bosqui — old and valued members — whose going depletes the 

 ranks of the older generation and reminds us of the increasing- 

 responsibility that falls upon the younger generation and more 

 recent members to carry forward, in a manner worthy of the 

 established tradition, the work that has been so well begun by 

 those who brought the Academy into being and shaped its earlv 

 course. The full list of those called by death is as follows : 



June 15. 1918 



