SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 19. 
Proceedings of the Academy. 
Nov. 5th, 1906. 
The Board of Directors met at 7:30 p.m., present, Messrs. Knight, 
Collins, Parsons, Whiting and Dozier. In the absence of the President 
Mr. Knight was chosen Chairman. The name of Ralph B. Clapp, of Al- 
hambra, was proposed for membership in the Academy, being properly 
recommended he was duly elected after the transaction of routine busi- 
ness, the Directors adjourned for the discussion of the topic for the even- 
ing which was a presentation of the engineering and commercial features 
of San Pedro harbor, by Lientenant Randolph Miner, U.8.N. The speak- 
er was introduced by Chairman Knight in fitting terms, and proceeded 
to deseribe in detail the history and prosecution of the great work pro- 
jected and now being accomplished at the harbor of San Pedro. The 
design of the government is to construct a capacious harbor of wide 
entrance, thoroughly protected from the ravages of storms; not less than 
forty feet deep at lowwater, and capable of accommodating two hundred 
and fifty ships at anchor. The speaker entered into particulars concerning 
the designs, the cost, the capacity, the concessions to make to corporate 
parties, the progress, and the possibilities of the great undertaking, and 
predicted a harbor of great commercial value to the world, provided with 
ample facilities for loading and unloading, reparing and constructing 
vessels of the largest type, bringing Los Angeles Angeles into direct 
touch with the great commercial centers of the world. 
After the lecture, many questions were asked and answered relative 
to the subject under: consideration, and a vote of thanks was enthusias- 
tically extended to Lieut. Miner for his very lucid, full and valuable 
contributions to the Academy’s knowledge of this important subject. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
MELVILLE DOZIER, Secretary. 
Dee. 3rd ,1906. 
The Board of Directors met at the usual hour, Mr. Knight presiding 
and a quorum present. 
Bills for the current expenses were prescribed and allowed. It was 
ordered that the method of collecting dues directly by the Treasurer shall 
go into effect January first. Messrs. Ezra Crossman and EH. BE. Eads, M. 
D., were duly elected to membership in the Academy on recommendation 
of Messrs. Britain and Whiting. 
The Directors then adjourned to the discussion of the subject before 
the Academy, which was entitled ‘‘The Cycle Theory of Physical Dis- 
turbances,’’ and which was most ably presented by Mr. Wm. A. Spald- 
ing a carefully prepared paper, a digest of Which appears elsewhere in 
this Bulletin. After a general discussion of the subject matter the meet- 
ing adjourned. 
MELVILLE DOZIER, Secretary. 
January 7th, 1907. 
After a brief meeting of the Directors this evening, during which 
only routine business was transacted, the Secretary introduced the 
speaker of the evening the President of the Academy, Mr. B. R. Baum- 
gardt, who has recently returned from an extended tour of study and 
observation in Hurope. Mr. Baumgardt, in his usual clear and forceful 
way, proceeded to give a running but corrected account of his most in- 
teresting and profitable travels. 
In Norway the old ‘‘ Viking Ship’’ was made the nueleus about 
