74 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
The speaker entered into particulars, aided by charts, concerning the 
design, the cost, the capacity, the concessions to private and corporate 
parties, the progress and the possibilities of the great undertaking, and 
predicted a harbor of vast commercial value to the world, provided with 
ample facilities for loading and unloading, repairing, and constructing 
vessels of the largest type, bringing Los Angeles into direct touch with 
the great commercial centers of the world. 
The address was. replete with interest and elicited much discussion 
and questioning tending to elucidate still further this subject of such 
vital importance to this City and State. 
A rising vote of thanks was heartily tendered to Lieutenant Miner 
for his valuable contribution to the knowledge and entertainment of the 
Academy. 
MELVILLE DOZIER, Secretary. 
} ASTRONOMICAL SECTION. 
The monthly meeting of the Astronomical Section was held at 825 
West Eleventh street, on Monday evening, Nov. 19, 1906. 
Professor Dozier read a paper on the ‘‘Sources of the Sun’s Heat’’ 
by Prof. J. F. Lanneau, President of Wake Forest College, North Caro- 
lina, originally presented before the North Carolina Academy of Sciences 
at Raleigh on May 18, 1906. 
HOLDRIDGE O. COLLINS, Secretary. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
The Botanical Section met at 544 Wilcox Building. Dr. Davidson 
read a paper and showed some specimens of plants gathered on a recent 
trip to the Mohave district tT PAYNE, Secretany- 
