SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 31 
with all the legal privileges and responsibilities that attend such an 
organization. 
The members of the Academy in its former associational character 
have been made members of the Academy in its corporate capacity, and 
the Fellows of the Academy have been made Fellows of the new, with 
certificates of Fellowship, signed and sealed in proper form and ready 
for delivery to those entitled to them. 
The following are the officers and directors of the corporate body: 
President, B. R. Baumgardt; First Vice-President, Wm. H. Knight; Sece- 
ond Vice-President, John D. Hooker; Secretary, Melville Dozier; Treas- 
urer, Saml. J. Keese; Directors: Dr. A. Davidson, Geo. W. Parsons, G. 
Major Taber, Dr. C. A. Whiting, Holdridge O. Collins and John Vosburg. 
For the legal services necessary to effect this change, carefully and 
gratuitously given, the Academy is indebted to Mr. H. O. Collins, of 
its Board of Directors. 
In its efforts: to popularize scientific investigation, we bespeak for 
the Academy the confidence and co-operation of the citizens of our fair 
city. MELVILLE DOZIER, Secretary. 
ASTRONOMICAL SECTION. 
To the Academy: I have the honor to report the proceedings of 
the Astronomical Section for the current year, 1906-1907: 
There have been six meetings, at all of which valuable papers were 
presented, and at which the members generally participatd in interesting 
discussions. : 
On May 21, 1906, the chairman, Mr. Wm. H. Knight, tendered some 
reflections upon ‘‘Cosmic Influences in the Production of Earthquakes,’’ 
suggested by the late terrestrial disturbances in San Francisco, and 
the predictions of several years ago by Mr. William A. Spalding of this 
Academy. 
October 15, 1906, Mr. Knight presented all the known facets econ- 
cerning the newly discovered asteroid, T. G., which was first detected 
upon a photographie plate at KOnigstuhl on March 3, 1906, and seen 
March 5, 1906, through the refractor at Vienna by Palisa. 
November 19, 1906, Prof. Dozier read a paper on the ‘‘Soureces of 
the Sun’s Heat,’’ by Prof. John F. Lanneau of Wake Forest College, 
North Carolina, originally presented May 18, 1906, before the North 
Carolina Academy of Sciences. 
In view of the approaching close opposition of Mars, Mr. Knight read 
a most interesting paper upon that planet at the meeting of January 
21, 1907. This article was subsequently published in full by the Los 
Angeles Times. 
At the meeting of February 18, 1907, Mr. William A. Spalding 
delivered a lecture upon ‘‘ Periodicity in Terrestrial Disturbances, due to 
Cosmic Forces,’’ which was an amplification of his address before the 
Academy in Symphony Hall, and from which conelusions were drawn 
relating to the seismic disturbances of 1906. 
On April 15, 1907, Prof. Dozier read an article on ‘‘Physies of the 
Shooting stars,’’ by Prof. Lanneau of Wake Forest College, North 
Carolina. : 
No meetings of the section were held in the months of June and 
December, 1906, nor in May, 1907. Very great interest has been taken 
in the working of this section during the last year, in view of the 
late remarkable discoveries, and the eminent astronomers at the Lick 
