SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN 



VOLUME 

 TEN 



NUMBER 

 ONE 



SAN FRANCISCO 

 JANUARY 

 19,6 



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^ <J)(Cessage and appreciation 



from 



James ^ryce 



To My Friends and Fellow Members of the Sierra Club : 



y K/ay I venture to express to you the sorrow with 

 which the news of the death of our friend^ the venera- 

 ble John Muir, has filled me? He was the patriarch 

 of American lovers of mountains^ one who had not only 

 a passion for the splendours of Nature^ but a wonderful 

 power of interpreting her to men, 'The very air of the 

 granite peaks, the very fragrance of the deep and sol- 

 emn forest, seem to breathe round us and soothe our 

 sense as we read the descriptions of his lonely wander- 

 ings in the Sierras when their majesty was first re- 

 vealed, California may well honour the service of one 

 who did so much to make known her charms and to 

 shield them from desecration. And you of the Club will 

 cherish the memory of a singularly pure and simple 

 character, who was in his life all that a worshipper 

 of nature ought to be. 



February jgthy 

 Hindleap, Forest Row 

 Sussex 



