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at Sacramento. The expense of incorporation, filing of documents, etc., 

 amounting to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) have been borne personally by 

 President Theo. B. Comstock. 



Judge Cheney, a valuable member of our Academy, volunteered his 

 legal services in drawing up the incorporation papers entirely free of 

 expense to the Academy. To both of these gentlemen the thanks of the 

 Southern California Academy of Sciences are due. 



Professor W. J. Hussey, the well-known Double Observer of the Lick 

 Observatory, in Southern California at present, is making astronomical 

 observations in the interests of science. He has been for the last two 

 weeks at Echo Mountain, using the Mt. Lowe sixteen-inch refractor. 

 Although, owing to cloudiness, there were but few nights during which 

 the telescope could be used to advantage. Nevertheless, no less than 

 fourteen new double stars were discovered during this short period of 

 time. This is a most gratifying result, testifying eloquently to the 

 splendid performance of the Lowe Observatory refractor in the hands of 

 a trained and skillful observer, as well as to the excellence of the 

 Southern California atmosphere for the most exacting and delicate 

 astronomical observations. 



Report of the Secretary of the 

 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 



for the year ending May 4th, 1903. 



Los Angeles, Cal., May 4th, 1903. 



To the Board of Directors and to the Members of the Southern 

 California Academy of Sciences: 



Gentlemen: — I ha:ve the honor as secretary of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, to present to you this evening my tenth 

 annual report, in the drafting of which it has been found convenient 

 to divide the subject matter into three particular departments, viz.: 

 General statement of the progress of the Academy, a statement of its 

 financial standing and a statement of its lectures during the past year. 



The Academy has prospered in every way during the year. It has 

 become an incorporated society, and plans and preparations have been 

 made to increase even more its activity for good in Los Angeles and 

 the surrounding country. The work done by the various sections has 

 been satisfactory and has been of such a nature that it has attracted 

 many new members into the new incorporation. 



The organ of communication between the various sections has been 

 the monthly Bulletin, of which ten issues have appeared during the 

 past year. Mary articles of original investigations have appeared here 

 for the first time, of which the following are, perhaps, the most 

 important: 



Contributions to the Lichen-flora of the California Coast Islands. — 

 By Dr. H. E. Hasse. 



A. new Bee, of the Genus Andronieus.— By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A Monograph on Pecten Aequisulcatus, Cpr. — By Mrs. M. Burton 

 Williamson. 



New or Little Know Southern California Plants.- By Le Eoy Abrams. 



Pandora (Kennerlia) Gradis, Dall. — By Prof. J. J. Eivers. 



Hynienoptera of Southern California. — By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Mymicophillous Coleoptera or Ant-Loving Beetles. — By Prof. J. J. 

 Rivers. 



A new California Rose. — By S. B. Parish. 



Additions to the Flora of Los Ano^eles County, 1. — By Le Eoy 

 Abrams. 



