June 25, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



935 



cases preparing full reports of meetings for 

 magazines. 



RAILROAD ROUTES AND RATES 



From Denver to San Francisco and return.. .$45.00 

 From Omaha or Kansas City and return . . . 30.00 

 From St. Louis or New Orleans and return. . 57.50 

 From Chicago to San Francisco and return. . 62.50 

 From Detroit to San Francisco and return . . 73.50 

 From Cincinnati to San Francisco and return. 71.10 

 From Cleveland to San Francisco and return. 76.20 

 From Pittsburgh to San Francisco and re- 

 turn 81.20 



From Buffalo to San Francisco and return . . 83.50 

 From Washington to San Francisco and re- 

 turn 92.30 



From Philadelphia to San Francisco and re- 

 turn 92.95 



From New York to San Francisco and re- 

 turn 94.30 



From Boston to San Francisco and return. .100.70 



Tickets from Chicago, St. Louis and similar 

 territory are good via New Orleans, returning 

 by the same or any other direct route. All 

 rates apply via Los Angeles. Round trip tick- 

 ets going or returning via Canadian or north- 

 ern lines through Prince Rupert, Victoria, 

 Vancouver, Seattle or Portland, Shasta Route 

 (rail) or steamship between these points and 

 San Francisco are $17.50 higher (berth and 

 meals included on steamer from Prince Rupert 

 to Seattle). The usual stop-over privileges 

 will be allowed on both going and returning 

 trip. Journey out may be taken via one route 

 and return by another, and the above rates are 

 good for 90 days from date of sale. Railroads 

 participating in this arrangement include the 

 Grand Trunk, Canadian Pacific, Great North- 

 ern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul ; North- 

 ern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, 

 Denver and Rio Grande, San Pedro, Los 

 Angeles and Salt Lake, Santa Fe and Mexican 

 Central. The Panama-California Exposition 

 at San Diego is reached by rail from Los 

 Angeles by the Santa Fe Railway and trans- 

 continental excursion tickets by way of Los 

 Angeles will include a trip to San Diego and 

 return without extra charge, but only if ar- 

 rangement for it is made at the time the trans- 

 continental tichet is purclvased. 



Special lines of steamers advertise passage 



between Atlantic and Pacific Coast by way of 

 the Panama Canal at rates varying between 

 $135 and $198 (one way). 



Stop-overs for side trips can be arranged 

 either going or returning. Round trip rate 

 from San Francisco to Hawaiian Islands and 

 return by either of several lines of steamers 

 from $110 up. Yellowstone National Park is 

 reached from Livingston on the Northern 

 Pacific (to Gardner and return $3.20). A 

 six-day trip in the park from Gardner costs 

 $40 and another of 5|- days $53.50. Yellow- 

 stone Park may also be reached from Ogden 

 on the Union Pacific by a branch to Yellow- 

 stone (round trip $9.25). From here a five-day 

 trip in the park costs $35 and a six-day trip 

 $40. 



The Yosemite National Park is reached by 

 Southern Pacific or Santa Fe lines, stopping 

 at Merced, Cal. Round trip from Merced to 

 Valley $18.50. 



Both hotels and comfortable camps may be 

 found at the camp. Several groves of Big 

 Trees may be visited from the Valley. One 

 grove very much visited is only six miles from 

 Santa Cruz (on the Southern Pacific). 



Alaska may be visited by steamer trip from 

 Seattle or Vancouver. Round trip from 

 Seattle $66 and up. From Prince Rupert (on 

 Grand Trunk) a trip to Alaska may be made 

 at an additional expense of about $30. 



The Official Hotel Bureau of the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition, with which 

 are affiliated about 85 per cent, of the hotels 

 of San Francisco and vicinity, guarantees that 

 the rates of hotels associated with the bureau 

 will not be advanced during 1915. Schedules 

 of rates of the hotels may be secured from this 

 bureau (address. Exposition Building, San 

 Francisco). 



Further information in regard to programs, 

 travel connections, etc., may be secured by 

 addressing Albert L. Barrows, associate secre- 

 tary, American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, University of California 

 Library, Berkeley, California. 



The columns of Science will contain further 

 announcements. ^_ j)_ Cole 



Secretary 



