NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE 



Geological Survey, Dept. Mines, Sydney, New South Wales, 



April 30, 1913. 



Wm. E. Colby, Sierra Club. 



Dear Mr. Colby: Very many thanks for your latest number of the 

 Sierra Club Bulletin. Each time it comes along the many beautiful 

 illustrations carry me back to the time when I spent a most delightful 

 holiday in your Sierran region. In the midst of magnificent scenery and 

 in company with one of your noblest natures, I learned to love every 

 inch of the great Sierras. The man I refer to is Dr. G. K. Gilbert, a 

 man worthy surely of rank with your John Muir. He it was who taught 

 me the names of all your forest trees and their geographical distribu- 

 tion. He it was who read to us of a night under the forest canopy of 

 the deeds of King in the Sierra, and who told us of the lives of Galen 

 Clark, John Muir in the Sierras and of John W. Powell in the Grand 

 Canon. He it was who showed me the paraboloid spider's web in Wa- 

 wona, who showed me the fault scarp under Mt. Dana, who urged me 

 with Willard D. Johnson to behold the panorama from the summit of 

 Mt. Davidson, who showed me the glacial polish of the Tuolumne, the 

 peculiarities of Fairview and Lambert's Dome, the view sublime from 

 Cloud's Rest, and a thousand other things equally glorious and enchant- 

 ing. 



To me in quiet moments often come the rustle of the aspen leaves, 

 the scent of the fir and pine forests, the stateliness of the Sequoias, the 

 rush of the San Joaquin torrents, the peculiar cries and calls of the 

 woodpecker and the jay, the splash of the water-ouzel, the innocent ap- 

 pearance of the poison oak, the overwhelming majesty of the Yosemite 

 walls and the glory of the mountain outlooks. I am, yours sincerely, 



E. C. Andrews 



[Ed. Note: Dr. Andrews is one of the foremost glacialogists of the world.] 

 CXUB ALPIN FRANQAIS 



Reconnu d'utilite publique par decret du 31 Mars, 1882 



Rue du Bac, 30, Paris, le 4 Juillet, 1918 



(Independence Day) 



Monsieur et Tres Honore President, 



Nous avons bien regu, en son temps, votre lettre du 3 Janvier, et nous 

 vous remercions bien vivement de votre adhesion au Congres de I'Al- 

 pinisme. Nous sommes heureux de voir votre nom figurer parmi nos 



