EDITORIAL 



PROFESSOR SniOX SARASOLA, S. J., President of the 

 Colegio De Belen at Havana, Cuba, assisted by Professor 

 Laurent Gang-oiti, S. J., Director of the Belen Astronomical Ob- 

 servatory, has made a life study of the atmospheric phenomena of 

 the Gulf of Mexico, and his reputation as a weather prophet is 

 world-wide. 



It is a matter of history that he sent to the Weather Bureau at 

 Washington a communication announcing that, on or about Sep- 

 tember 8, 1900, a terrific hurricane would sweep along the Atlantic 

 sea-board from the Gulf of Mexico as far north as Charleston, 

 South Carolina. The authorities at Washington paid no attention 

 to this communication further than announcing that in September, 

 strong winds would prevail throughout the eastern portion of the 

 Southern States. 



The prophecy of Professor Sarasola, which, in the considera- 

 tion of the cataclysm which succeeded, and which prophecy ap- 

 proached the domain of the super-natural, was fulfilled by the tor- 

 nado which swept from the face of the earth, the beautiful City of 

 Galveston, Texas. 



A letter to President Sarasola, asking him to contribute an 

 article for the Bulletin of this Academy, received a reply that re- 

 quests of a similar character had come to him from Scientific 

 Bodies in all portions of the world, and that the engrossing duties 

 in the college work had compelled him, in every case, to decline ; 

 but he would make an exception in favor of the Southern Califor- 

 nia Academy of Science, inasmuch as the request had come from 

 one who was a friend of his college class-mate, and who had 



