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asm over the showing made by the National Park Service during the 

 past year that we ardently hope Congress will speedily transfer to this 

 service the ten national monuments which by a strange anomaly still 

 remain under the control of another department. W. F. B. 



Bequest Lieutenant Robert S. .Gillett, a member of the club, and 

 TO THE resident of Hartford, Connecticut, gave his life for his 



Sierra Club country in an airplane accident in Texas, September 17, 

 1918. We are proud to have had so brave a spirit as his 

 on our honor roll. He had a real love for the Sierra, and his widow 

 writes that his admiration for John Muir was limitless. His will pro- 

 vides for a bequest of one thousand dollars to the Sierra Club, to be 

 used for the maintenance of the John Muir Trail or toward the upkeep 

 of the Parsons Memorial Lodge in Tuolumne Meadows. 



It is worthy of note that the two bequests which have been made to 

 the club have come from those who reside far from the Sierra. Ed- 

 ward Whymper, the world-famed mountaineer of England, left the club 

 fifty pounds in his will, and now this recent bequest comes from one 

 who resided across the continent. Can it be that these generous non- 

 residents have a greater love and appreciation of the Sierra and of the 

 work the club is striving to accomplish than those of us who live in 

 California? The Appalachian Club has received many and substantial 

 bequests and gifts from its members. Perhaps the thought has not 

 occurred to our own members yet. There are a multitude of worthy 

 objects in line with the work of the club, to which such gifts, large or 

 small, could be devoted. y\i C. 



