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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



In addition to longer articles suitable for the body of the magazine, the editor 

 would be glad to receive brief memoranda of all noteworthy trips or explorations, 

 together with brief comment and suggestion on any topics of general interest to 

 the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes concerning the animals, 

 birds, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of the mountains, will be acceptable. 



The office of the Sierra Club is at Room i6. Third Floor, Mills Building , 

 San Francisco, where all the maps, photographs, and other records of the Club 

 are kept, and where members are welcome at any time. 



The Club would like to purchase additional copies of those numbers of the 

 Sierra Club Bulletin which are noted on the back of the cover of this number 

 as being out of print, and we hope any member having extra copies will send 

 them to the Secretary. 



Dedication of LeConte Memorial Lodge. 

 The Le Conte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley was 

 dedicated by the Sierra Club July 3, 1904. There was a large 

 attendance of Sierra Club members, owing to the fact that 

 Yosemite Valley had been selected as the gathering-place for 

 the 1904 Outing, The dedication exercises were simple, but very 

 impressive. Wm. E. Colby, the Secretary of the Club, presided, 

 in the absence of the President and Vice-President. Rev. C. T. 

 Brown, of San Diego, gave the invocation. Professor A. C. 

 Lawson, who succeeded Professor Le Conte as head of the Geo- 

 logical Department of the University of California, Mr. Alexander 

 G. Eells, President of the Alumni Association, and Dr. G. K. 

 Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological Survey, each delivered an address. 

 Mr. Willoughby Rodman read a poem written for the occasion, 

 and Miss Caroline Little sang Tennyson's " Splendor Falls on 

 Castle Walls." Miss Harriet Monroe, of Chicago, read an 

 original quatrain. Rev. Joseph Clemens pronounced the benedic- 

 tion. The exercises closed with the singing of " The Star- 

 Spangled Banner." A bronze tablet appropriately inscribed was 

 inserted in the walls of the building. 



Professor Gilbert writes concerning the names of the rivers 

 of the Sierras as follows : — 



Washington, D. C, October 24, 1904. 

 Secretary Sierra Club, San Francisco, Cal. 



Dear Sir — The members of the Sierra Club are well ac- 

 quainted with the inconvenience of the system of naming which 

 obtains for the primary and secondary branches of the rivers 



