CALENDAR OF MEETINGS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY. 



January 7. — Meeting of the Astronomical Section at 724 South Broad- 

 way. Subject: "The Metric System," by Prof. Melville Dozier. 



January 14. — Meeting of the Academy at 724 South Broadway. Sub- 

 ject : "Landscape Gardening and Floriculture," by Mr. Ernest Braunton, 

 •editor of the California Floriculturist. The lecture will embrace the effect 

 of gardening upon civilization, its history and development, rules for land- 

 scape gardening, the right and wrong w^ays and the dictates of nature, 

 California gardening in general and Los Angeles in particular, the planting 

 and care of trees, shrubs and plants, floriculture in general and the rose in 

 particular. The subject will be illustrated with charts showing several 

 economic and artistic ways of laying out an ordinary city lot. 



January 21. — Biological Section wall meet at the State Normal School. 



January 2y. — Botanical Section will meet at room 85, Temple block. 



January 28. — Geological Section wall meet at the Southw'est Miners' 

 Association rooms. First and Main streets. 



