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A regularly called meeting of tlie Directors was held in the Araflemy 

 office on Saturday, February 16, 1918. Present, Messrs. Beeman, Benton, 

 Collins, Kcese, Parsons and Spalding. 



President Benlon presented for consideration an Agrcenunt, dated 

 January 7, 1918, between the Southern California Acadeiny of Sciences and 

 others, and the County of I.os Angeles, modifying and supplementing the 

 Agreement dated Februar}- 7, 1910, between the same parties. 



The said supplementary Contract provides that tlie Board of r,ov- 

 ernors, created by the said Agreement of February 7. 1910, shall liave 

 the care, control, management and improvement of the Brea Beds, do- 

 nated by Mr. G. Allen Hancock, and the property donated by (jeneral 

 Harrison Gray Otis, for a period of fifty years, but subject however to 

 the supervision and approval of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles 

 Count}'. 



The unanimous consent of the Directors was voted to the terms of 

 said supplementary Contract, and the same was ratified and confiimed, 

 and the President and Secretary were authorized to execute the same 

 on behalf of this Corporation. 



Board adjourned. 



Academy Meeting 



One of the most interesting assemblies of this Academy during the 

 many years last past, was convened on Friday, March 29, 1918, in the 

 Friday Morning Club House. 



The Honorable Grant Jackson, Judge of the Superior Court, a Native 

 Son of the Golden West, presented to us a most graphic and valuable 

 history of the early days of California and the trials and hardships of 

 the American immigrants Vvdiich have placed this great State in the front 

 rank of those of our Nation, the most prosperous, most advanced in intel- 

 lectual pursuits and scientific attainments. 



His discourse was illustrated by a large collection of views, show- 

 ing the Mission structures, their patron saints, the early pueblas and pre- 

 sidios and the valleys and mountains of our coast environment. 



Special Meeting of the Academy 



Saturday, April 13, 1918, was celebrated as Arbor Day, at Exposition 

 Park, Los Angeles, by patriotic exercises and tree-planting in commemora- 

 tion of various public bodies and organizations that have identified them- 

 selves with the development of the Park. 



A formal notice of this event was transmitted to our members and a 

 generous attendance responded. 



At the north end of the sunken quadrangle and immediately fronting 

 the Museum building our ex-President, William A. Spalding, with the 

 assistance of Directors Samuel J. Keese and George W. Parsons, planted 

 a California live oak tree, and erected at its side a tablet in stone and 

 bronze, with a legend of the date and its institution by this Academy of 

 Sciences, and Mr. Spalding delivered to the assembly a most interesting 

 historical address relating to the activities of this Academy. 



Academy Meeting 



The Annual Meeting of the Academy was held Tuesday evening. May 

 28, 1918, in the Auditorium of the Friday Morning Club House. 



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