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membership, and one of our greatest national railroad systems has vol- 

 unteered its financial support as soon as railroads become able again 

 to support anything. But the National Parks Association must owe its 

 support, not to business interests, but to a strong membership which 

 is representative of the whole country; for then, and not till then, will 

 it exercise an influence proportionate to its leadership and activity. 



Membership is coming fast, but so far not from California. Besides 

 several university professors, the association has not a dozen members 

 from California, the State of four national parks. It ought to have 

 three hundred now and a thousand a year from now. 



The impulse which will put California behind this vigorous, virile 

 movement must originate in California. It would seem extremely ap- 

 propriate for the Sierra Club to become the organizer of that impulse. 



I may add that the membership is three dollars a year, the tangible 

 value of which the association hopes to return in its publications of 

 new studies in scenery and wild life, its national-park news bulletins, 

 and its other stated forms of service. The first of the publications, on 

 the new Grand Canon National Park, contains so many facts new to 

 the public that an effort is being made by educators outside of this asso- 

 ciation to get it in the hands of geography teachers generally. The pub- 

 lication on Zion Canon, which was made a national park November 19th 

 last, is still more striking in its assemblage of important facts and rela- 

 tionship hitherto not known to the public. Others planned will carry 

 out the promise of this beginning. 



I hope and expect to have California's co-operation in advancing the 

 important work of the National Parks Association. I want it in the 

 form of memberships. Sincerely, 



Robert Sterling Yard, Executive Secretary 



The Natural History of the Sierra Nevada 



A COURSE OF instruction FOR THE PROSPECTIVE SUMMER VACATIONIST 



"Can you read a roadside or a trailside as understandingly and as 

 pleasurably as you read a book?" Believing that our members will wish 

 to enlarge their outdoor interests in the direction of this very pertinent 

 question, we gladly co-operate with the Extension Division of the Uni- 

 versity of California in announcing the following course of lectures by 

 Dr. Harold C. Bryant, economic ornithologist of the university, begin- 

 ning March 22 in San Francisco. 



Fee for ten lectures, $5.00. Register for this course at 301 California 

 Hall, Berkeley, or at 140 Kearny Street, San Francisco. 



1. The summer vacation: where, when and how to go. 



2. Transportation and equipment. Camp equipment (Ellery Arms Co.). 



3. Structure and history of the Sierra. 



