(To the Council of the ^Vcadnmi of ^ciencro, 



of $an Francisco, California: 



I respectfully ask your patient consideration of the 

 contents of the paper which I now place within your 

 keeping, and further ask that you retain it on tile 

 until such time as its information may be discovered 

 to lir of no value to science. This request is made, 

 not only in protection of my own personal interests 

 as the discoverer of the truths described within the 

 paper, hut as a recognition of the courtesy due your 

 official body, as executors of the Jack Trust, which, 

 you are well aware, was transferred to you for the 

 special advancement of science, or fundamental 

 truth. The contents of the paper, or its purported 

 discoveries, are of course placed within the keeping 

 of your council as ;r hody,-'U'i<ider the trust, or within 

 the keeping of any single member, or members, 

 or to any outsider that may he designated by your 

 council, to he utilized or reduced to practical inves- 

 tigation in any manner that you or they may deem 

 proper and expedient. 



Regarding this matter that is now brought before 

 you, 1 will explain further that I have applied tor a 

 copyright upon a hook, setting forth in careful detail 

 what I deem to he convincing proofs of tin' truth of 

 the discoveries. Also have I sent to Washington a 

 paper similar to the one now before you, to he placed 

 on record in the proper department, and to which I 

 shall urge the attention, in the interest of absolute 

 truth, of any one competent, to force the matter to an 

 issue. Also have 1 already taken steps to -end an 

 appeal, through our American Consul at London, to 

 Victoria, Queen of England, laying the fact- before 

 her, which are now presented to you, and asking her 



