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as ever, and there remains a balance of about six hundred 

 dollars in the treasury after every bill has been paid. 



The Le Conte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley 

 has been opened for the summer as a Club headquarters 

 where persons may obtain information regarding the 

 high mountains and how to reach them, and where maps, 

 photographs, and books belonging to the Club can be 

 consulted. As has been the custom in the past, a custo- 

 dian or caretaker has been selected to take charge of the 

 Lodge during the three months of heaviest travel to 

 Yosemite. Mr. R. L. McWilliams, a recent graduate of 

 the University of CaHfornia, has been chosen to fill this 

 position, and is in every way qualified to represent the 

 Qub. 



The Lodge will be formally dedicated on the 3d of 

 July, when the Outing party will have reached the 

 Valley, and thus a large attendance of members of the 

 Club will be rendered possible. The services will be 

 very simple in their nature, and will thus be in entire 

 keeping with the simplicity which characterized Professor 

 Le Conte's life. There will be addresses by those who 

 knew him intimately, a poem written by one of the mem- 

 bers will be read, and a bronze tablet, with appropriate 

 inscription indicating the purpose for which the building 

 was erected, will be permanently inserted in one of its 

 walls. 



The Outing for this summer will be taken through 

 Yosemite to the Tuolumne Meadows, where a permanent 

 camp of two weeks will be established, and from which 

 place the party will return through Hetch-Hetchy Valley 

 and by way of Lakes Vernon, Laurel, and Eleanor to 

 the Hetch-Hetchy and Yosemite valleys' logging-train, 

 which connects with the main-line railroads. Limiting the 



