92 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
elicit public interest in the results of technical investigation,’’ 
here in this fake-burdened land, being done to death with 
clap trap, wild cat schemes, brazenly deporting in the guise 
of science (God save the mark). Our “‘study of local natural 
features and phenomena,’’ aside from the work being done 
under foreign auspices, is being woefully neglected, and ‘‘the 
conservation of material illustrating local phases’’— well, we are 
pursuing the imbecile policy of letting the other fellow come 
and take it. 
Now, it is to overcome all this neglect, to build up an institu- 
tion to do and.to save and to promulgate correct notions, that 
the Southern California Academy of Sciences is founded and 
incorporated, and for these sole objects are its werking mem- 
bers striving. 
We have a membership of about 250 and a circulation mueh 
greater to the Bulletin; 650 copies of this number will be 
printed. The exchange list has recently grown greatly, almost 
wholly through solicitation from prominent American and for- 
eign Academies. By this means, the library is rapidly increas- 
ing. Collections are gradually accumulating, but for these 
there is nowhere a home and a place for exhibit. 
What is needed now is broader advertising of the purp»ses 
and the operations of the Academy among the friends and 
neighbors of the members. Each one can aid materially by a 
word now and then, here and there, and by enlisting members. 
A large edition of the Bulletin for October, 1904, containing 
the text of the Constitution and By-Laws, was _ publislied. 
Copies are to be had upon application at 534 Stimson Bldg., Los 
Angeles, of the Editor. 
The officers elected in May to serve until June, 1906, are: 
President, Melville, Dozier, State Normal School. 
Vice President, John D. Hooker, 130 8. Los Angeles street. 
Secretary, B. R. Baumgardt, 116 N. Broadway. 
Treasurer, G. Major Taber, Laughlin Bldg. 
William H. Knight, Times Bldg. 
Professor A. B. Ulrey, University of Southern California. 
Dr. C. A. Whiting, Pacific College of Osteopathy. 
Dr. A. Davidson, Wilcox Bldg. - 
Dr. S. M. Woodbridge, South Pasadena. 
Geo. W. Parsons, 138 S. Broadway. 
Theo. B. Comstock, Stimson Bldg. 
Dr. John Woodbridge is Assistant Secretary and Collector. 
