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LORQUINIA 
THE BOULDER LODGE AT SWITZER'S CAMP 
This unique structure, built entirely of rocks in the heart of 
the San Gabriel Mountains^ is a suggestion and a beginning of a 
mountain natural history laboratory. There is a collection of but- 
terflies, reptiles, plants, bird skins and a few mounted mammals 
representative of the local fauna. The Lodge designed and built 
by Lloyd B. Austin is the social center of this mountain resort, but 
the natural history side has his intense interest, sympathy and help. 
Some day it is hoped to have an equipped mountain laboratory 
for the study of the biological problems presented by mountains. 
We have numerous seaside laboratories: but the natural history 
of the mountains is just as suggestive and interesting as that of the 
seashore and has received less attention. 
Visit Boulder Lodge and think about the greater natural history 
laboratory. 
THE REIGN OF THE TRILOBITE 
The Tribolite lived in the Cambrian time, 
When the flag of his race he unfurled ; 
Supremely he reigned, though he burrowed in slime — 
He was king of the primitive world. 
Onward he marched and feared never a foe, 
Save the merciless ravage of time. 
He believed that the world and all here below 
Were created for him and his kind. 
The down-trodden mollusk he passed with a sneer, 
And the coral-polyp he ignored ; 
So all lowly creatures just trembled with fear. 
As the dark dismal deep he explored. 
The Cambrian passed, and the fishes appeared 
To rule in Silurian time — 
They disputed the realm of the Tribolite race, 
Which thenceforth began to decline. 
And so it has been since beginning of time : 
A ruler may rule but a day. 
Both he and his realm soon must decline, — 
His glory is doomed to decay. — E. E. H. 
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