554 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



1894, I bethought me that there the glacier had left a memorial record in 

 its own handwriting, indelible on the granitic syenite rocks, which could not 

 be gainsaid ; with Mr. French I went and reexamined them carefully ; and 

 as an eventual historic outcome of this conclusion I here quote an article 

 from the I,os Angeles Daily Journal of Sept. 13, 1894 • 



THE MARKINGS AT DEVIL 'S GATE. 



Pasadena, Cal., June 2, 1894. 



By invitation of Dr. H. A. Reid we have examined what he claims are 

 " glacial scratches ' on the rocks at Devil's Gate. They consist of some 

 eight or nine examples of peculiarly polished marks on the surface of hard 

 granite rocks — some of them being striations or little grooves in parallel 

 lines, and others more like patches of polished chisel work, but all appar- 

 ently made by a power moving from north to south, which it seems would 

 have been the most natural line of motion of a glacier at this point. We 

 are not expert geologists or glacialists, but have some knowledge of the 

 subject in connection with other branches of natural science ; and we do 

 not know of any other natural cause which could have produced these par- 

 ticular marks in the place, and on the kind of rock surfaces, and in the 

 relative positions of alignment, as we found them. 



Signed : 



A. J. McClatchie, [Professor in charge of biology department in 

 Throop Polytechnic Institute.]* 



J. D. Gaylord, [Formerly principal of High School in Brooklyn, Conn., 

 and of Academy at Ashford, Conn.; twenty-two years a teacher; constant 

 reader of science periodicals, etc.] 



J. B. French, [Formerly treasurer and librarian of the Western Reserve 

 Historical Society at Cleveland, Ohio, co-member and worker with Dr. Geo. 

 Frederick Wright, the foremost authority on glacial phenomena now living.] 



Geo. Conant, [For twelve years principal of incorporated academies in 

 Western New York, and seventeen years principal of city schools in Ohio.] 



Thomas Nelmes, [Member of Science Association of Southern Cali- 

 fornia.] 



Delos Arnold, [Special student in paleontology ; has gathered and 

 classified the finest collection of fossil shells, crinoids, etc., in the State.] 



Frank J. Polley, [Professor of history and accounts in Throop Poly- 

 technic Institute; a zealous and working member of the I^os Angeles County 

 Historical Society.] 



Joseph Grinnell, [Special student in entomology and ornithology ; 

 has made a large and valuable collection, especiallj^ of native birds.] 



Charles V. Tebbetts, [Formerly professor in William Penn College, 

 Oskaloosa, Iowa, and principal of Pasadena High School, 1889-90.] 



Wm. H. Knight, [President of Southern California Science Association, 

 1894; honorary member Cincinnati Society of Natural History; contributor 

 to various scientific publications.] 



For twelve months longer I pursued this investigation, and can now re- 



*I have added in brackets after each name a statenieut of their relation to scientific studies or in- 

 terests which explains why I invited them to this particular investigation 



