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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 comments and suggestions on any topics of 

 general interest to the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes 

 concerning the animals, birds, fish, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of 

 the mountains, will be acceptable. 



The oMce of the Sierra Club is Room 402 Mills Building, San Francisco, 

 where all Club members are welcome, and where all the maps, photographs, 

 and other records of the Club are kept. 



The Club would like to secure additional copies of those members 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. 



A Letter from Sir Martin Conway. 



Allington Castle, Maidstone, England, 

 17 April, 1912. 

 The Editor of the Sierra Club Bulletin. 



Dear Sir: I should like to tell you how much pleasure I get 

 from the Sierra Club Bulletin, which, through the kindness of 

 your members, I am permitted to receive every time. Unfortu- 

 nately I am unable to do anything for the Club which has done 

 me the honor to number me within its ranks; I wish I could. I 

 never fail to read the accounts of your annual Outings and they 

 make me long to take part in them and to share the splendid 

 glory of your scenery and the evident happiness of your glad 

 companionship. No longer able to make mountain ascents myself, 

 I delight to read about them. . . . The Sierra Club seems to me 

 to preserve much of the old spirit which was in alpine climbers 

 in the days when climbing was a fresh thing. I like to think 

 of your camping parties in the great forest valleys and on their 

 vast, far-seeing slopes. I like to think of the great trout fattening 

 in the streams you have stocked. I like to think of all the good 

 you are doing and trying to do in forest conservation. Perhaps, 

 even yet, some day, I may be able to come hobbling after one of 

 your summer camping parties, and may see the great trees, and 

 the wonderful valleys, and some of the other glorious sights of 

 your far-western world. Anyhow, I may always see them in my 

 mind's eye with the help of the excellent photographs which your 

 journal so admirably reproduces. Yours faithfully, 



Martin Conway. 



[Sir Martin Conway, in 1898, surveyed and explored the Bo- 

 livian Andes, ascending, among other peaks, Sorata (21,500 feet) 



