I30 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



TRANSACTIONS FOR OCTOBER, 19C4 



1. ACADEMY SESSIONS. 

 1, Regular Monthly Meeting. 



The second meeting of the Academy for the fiscal year was held 

 at the State Normal School, Mondaj^ evening, October 3, 1904. Presi- 

 dent Melville Dozier in the chair. 



In fitting words of commendation of the Government work to- 

 wards the preservation of the wild animals now being ruthlessly slaugh- 

 tered in American forests, and more especially the effective service 

 rendered by the gentleman introduced. President Dozier presented the 

 speaker of the occasion, Mr. Alden Sampson, formerly game preserve 

 expert of the Bureau of Forestry of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Mr. Sampson read a most valuable pa^^er on tlie ' ' Pi-esent and 

 Prospective Game Preserves of the United States, "showing how inci- 

 dental to other contemplated objects have heretofore been the refuges 

 vouchsafed to the noble game which reckless slaughter has wofuliy 

 decimated almost to extinction of some species, as the buffalo, grizzly 

 bear, elk, moose, etc." The present anomalous and ineffective policy of 

 the Government, due to the lack of segregation of autr.ority, was 

 briefly stated and a clear notion was given of the work already ac- 

 complished, as viewed by the speaker in a journey of 13,000 miles 

 v/hile inspecting the refuges in actual operation. 



This paper was highly appreciated by the audience, as was evinced 

 by a warm vote of thanks tendered the speaker at the close. Some 

 discussion was participated in by President Dozier and Messrs. Collins, 

 Stewart, Knight, Taber, Comstock and others. 



The secretary pro tern, announced the list of new members elected 

 by the Boards after which the president made announcements re- 

 garding meetings of Sections and the Academy in November, making 

 also a strong appeal to the members to aid in extending the influence 

 of the Academy by personal effort. 



An invitation from the Ebell Club to members of the Academy 

 ti attend the lecture of Sir John Murray, of Challenger fame, to 

 be given Monday evening, October 10, was read by the president and 

 formally accepted. 



The Session was then adjourned to meet again Monday evening, 

 November 7. THEO.' B. COMSTOCK, Secretary Pro T^m. 



2. Extraordinary Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Section of Astronomy gave 

 place October 17 to a gathering of the Academy in association with 

 the Los Angeles Ebell Club, at the Normal School, to listen to a 

 lecture by Sir John Murray, of Edinburgh, upon " Oceanology. " An 

 audience "^of 800 of our leading citizens listened attentively to this 

 able and interesting address. President Dozier, of the Academy, pre- 

 sided. The distinguished lecturer spoke feelingly and in an entertain- 

 ing manner of the work of the Challenger Expedition of 1872, and 

 of dredging enterprises under the §iuspices of other governments than 

 his own, particularly of those conducted by Americans, including 

 that now engaged in the South Pacific under our esteemed Alexander 

 Agassiz. The conclusions reached by authorities regarding the topog- 

 raphy of the ocean beds and the nature of the deposits accumulating 



