96 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
ANNUAL REPORTS FOR YEAR 1904-5. 
The Academy of Sciences held its annual meeting June 5th, 1905, 
in the large hall of the State Normal School. President Dozier was in 
the chair and briefly in cheering words spoke of the successful proceed- 
ings of the year. 
At the regular June meeting of the Academy held at the State 
Normal School, Los Angeles, on Monday evening, the 5th, the following 
reports were read, accepted and ordered filed: 
I. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMY. 
The Secretary, Mr. B. R. Baumgardt, presented his reports as follows: 
Los Angeles, California, June 5, 1905. 
To the Board of Directors and the Members of the Southern California 
Academy of Sciences. 
Gentlemen:—In accordance with the by-laws, I beg leave to present 
the Secretary’s annual report for the fiscal year ending June 5, 1905. 
It has been heretofore the custom of the Secretary to present a 
financial report on the occasion of the annual meeting, but in accordance 
with an agreement entered into with the Board of Directors, in the 
beginning of the present fiscal year, the Secretary was relieved from 
this part of the office. The financial report will be incorporated in the 
Treasurer’s annual statement. 
Membership. 
At the beginning of the present fiscal year, there were 75 Fellows and 
190 active members. During the year, 27 members have been added. 
The Academy has lost by death, removal and resignation, about 12 
members. The membership at present is about 200. 
Meetings. 
The Academy has convened nine times during the past year, and 
each of the Sections have met the same number of times, in response to 
the call for monthly meeting. 
A list of the lectures delivered before the Academy during the 
year, with the names of the lecturers, form a part of this report, and 
will be published in the June Bulletin. 
The progress of the Academy, during the past year, has been in a 
measure handicapped by conditions which the Board of Directors have 
not been able to satisfactorily adjust. Im the first place, the place of 
meeting has had a reactionary influence upon the attendance. 
The Board, and, I believe, all the members of the Academy, recog- 
nize the courtesy extended to them by the Directors of the State Normal 
School in granting the Academy the privilege of meeting in this splendid 
auditorium. Owing to the fact that the income of the Academy is en- 
tirely limited to the membership dues, this arrangement has been of 
material aid to the successful manipulation of the Academy’s financial 
affairs. Nevertheless, it would seem that the meeting place is not so 
situated as to draw the full strength of the Academy’s personelle in 
attendance at the meetings. This is no doubt partially due to the hill 
that has to be climbed in order to arrive at the Normal School, and also 
partly to the distance of the meeting place from a street-car line. 
If it were possible for the Academy to secure a more convenient 
and centrally located place for meeting, there would, no doubt, be a 
material increase in the attendance at the meetings. 
A second handicap to the progressive advance of the interests of 
the Southern California Academy of Sciences is the need of an efficient 
