MAY 9 - 1905 
VOL. IV. MARCH, 1905 NO. 3 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Southern Catitornia Academy of Sciences 
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION 
THEO. B. COMSTOCK, S. D.; A. DAVIpDsoN, C. M., M. D.; Wo. H. KNIGHT. 
CONTENTS: 
Page Page 
Now or Never (Editorial).................000 37 List of Butterflies Found Within the 
Transactions for February, 1906........... 38 Area of Southern California. By 
Academy, Sections Biology, Astro- Professor J. J. Rivers..........ssccceeseeees 42 
TLGHIL prerracvaccstaccdscescccrsnacacsntesccccesccers 38 A Preliminary Synopsis of the South- 
Geology, Botany..........s.0...sessssescsceeees 40 ern California Cyperaceae, VII. 
Publications Received ............csssescseeeeees 41 By) Ss Bebe @tiS Hes-ccscssccccsse-cecscoscreseers 51 
Publications Reviewed ....ccccs.ssccceceeceeees 41 
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. NOW OR NEVER! 
Gradually the Academy is gaining in membership and in 
power for good in this region; not by any means as much as 
it ought nor as aggressively as is proper, but a strenuous ob- 
server can detect faint signs of movement in the right direction. 
If we were only doing our best and aiming for the highest 
accomplishment we might rest content. But there is need 
of more zeal and more attention to enlistmg young blood into 
the organization. 
Our field is being exploited too much by foreign money 
and energy; we appreciate too little the value and scientific 
importance of what les at our own doors. 
Some of our best talent has been tempted away by more 
generous treatment from outside. We hardly realize, as a 
community, the honors which come to us in the selection of 
this region as the observation point of the world’s noted as- 
tronomers. We have sat complacent while our archeologic 
treasures have been filehed from under our noses, unobserved 
by our eyes. 
The Southwest Society of the Archeological Institute of 
America is awake and doing something. Let us awake to our 
duty and our opportunity. 
