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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



REPORTS. 



Report of the Secretary, 



May 4, 1907 - May 2, 1908. 



The names of the recently elected Board of Directors and of 

 the officers selected by them are set forth on the opposite page. 



There was a net gain of 98 members during the year. A total 

 of 198 new members joined the Club and 100 were crossed from 

 the list by reason of death, resignation, and non-payment of dues. 

 At the end of the Club year, in May, the total membership was 

 1,002. This makes a most auspicious period in the Club's history, 

 and is most convincing evidence that the Club is thoroughly 

 alive and has good reasons for existence. With energetic work 

 we should have 1,200 members by another year. 



The balance in the Treasury is larger than ever before in the 

 Club's history, but there are many heavy expenses to meet during 

 the coming year, and it is fortunate that the Club is in so secure 

 a financial position. 



The Circular letters have already announced the opening of the 

 new Club Room in the Mills Building, but it is well to keep this 

 in mind, as the Club's library and photographs are once more 

 available for the members. 



The sum of $337.09 was raised for the re-furnishing fund for 

 our new Club Room in the Mills Building, and has been expended 



as follows : — 



Bookcases $ 50 00 



Desk, typewriter, and chair 75 00 



Table 37 00 



FiHng system (cards, letters, maps, etc.) 83 25 



Linoleum 39 10 



Binding Club Bulletins, Appalachia, etc 52 74 



Total expended $337 09 



The Club is in receipt of the following gifts, and expresses its 

 sincere thanks to the donors : — 



One hundred dollars from James Mills, to be used in purchas- 

 ing furniture for the Le Conte Lodge in Yosemite ; a very rare 

 and large panoramic photograph of San Francisco, taken in 1877, 

 a set of Indian photographs and Powell's report on the Grand 

 Canon of the Colorado, from Mrs. N. T. Smith; a set of "Pic- 

 turesque California," from John Muir; a wonderful enlarged 



