BULLETIN 



or THE 



Southern California Academy of Sciences 



LOS ANGELES 



JULY, 1918 

 Volume XVII. Part 2. 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION 



Holdridge Ozro Collins, L.L.D., Chairman 

 Anstruther Davidson, C. M., M. D. Samuel J. Keese 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Editorial 31 



Arbor Day. April 13, 1918 



Mars F. Baumgardt and the Clark Observatory 



Thomas L. O'Brien and the World War 



Avant-propos by the President 37 



Additions to local Flora 60 



Eclipse superstitions of the Indians 53 



Lupinus mollisf olius 57 



Lupinus paynei 58 



Pearl fisheries of Tennessee 67 



Southern California Botany 64 



Southern California underscribed plants 63 



Southern California Lichen flora 61 



Southern California Star fishes 39 



Secretary's Annual Report 71 



In Memoriana 73 



Treasurer s Annual Report 75 



Transactions of the Academy 76 



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