ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



Acknowledgment is due to the organizations whose financial assistance has made 

 possible the work of the Committee, especially to the organizations which in addition 

 to financial support have rendered conspicuous assistance throughout the Conmiittee 

 work, and to the individuals who have given most largely of time and eft'ort toward 

 the success of the undertaking. 



Among organizations which, besides large financial contributions, have given 

 most generously, in facilities for and assistance in the conduct of the Committee 

 work, are the Southern Pacific Company, the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Com- 

 pany, the ('alifornia and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation, the Board of State 

 Harbor Commissioners, the Associated Oil Company, and the Shell Company of 

 California. While not appearing in the list of financial contributors, the LIniversity 

 of California, in laboratory space and facilities, in the unstinted work of scientific 

 specialists, and in the guidance of the Scientific Advisory Committee which it ap- 

 pointed for this Committee, has made a contribution of such magnitude that the 

 results which the Committee presents in this \()lume would have been impossible 

 without its cooperation. Major cooperation both in scientific assistance and ad- 

 ministrative participation was also rendered by the Ihiited States Forest Service 

 through its California District at San Francisco, as well as through the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. Special courtesies were extended and assist- 

 ance rendered in conspicuous degree by the LI. S. Lighthouse Service; the U. S. Army 

 Engineers, Rivers and Harbors, and Fort Mason; the U. S. Navy, Mare Island Navy 

 Yard, and Eleventh District Headquarters, San Diego; the Los Angeles City Harbor 

 Department, San Pedro; and by numerous private companies throughout the San 

 Francisco Bay region. 



The Committee is indebted for unremitting effort in behalf of its work to its 

 ofiicers, past and present, Messrs. F. D. Mattos, A. A. Brown, E. M. Blake, W. C. 

 Ball, J. W. Kelly, and C. h. Hill. Large service, in many cases continuing throughout 

 the project, has been rendered to the Committee either in its field work or in the 

 preparation of this report by many Committee members, among whom should be 

 specially mentioned Dr. C. A. Kofoid, L. D. Jurs, Frank G. White, W. H. Kirk- 

 bride, J. S. Burd, and C. E. Cortes, of the Executive Committee, C. E. Grunsky, 

 George M. Hunt, Capt. C. S. Jarvis, R. M. Neily, Jerome Newman, Capt. H. W. 

 Rhodes, H. E. Squire, J. W. Williams, H. J. Wilson, Dr. Robert C. Miller, Dr. W. D. 

 Ramage, H. M. Goodman, C. A. Wilson and R. M. Alpen. Acknowledgments for 

 many specific courtesies or services are made at appropriate points in the text of 

 this report. 



The Committee. 



