LORQUINIA 
The club activities began in a small way. The first thing of any 
importance was the adoption of a club photograph album, in which 
photographic records of the various activities of the club members are 
entered. There are now several very interesting series of pictures taken 
by different members and some ought in the future to furnish fine 
photographic material for Lorquinia. 
In 1914 our conchologist, E. P. Chace, who was then a new mem- 
ber, introduced the idea of having club stationery. It was felt that this 
was a necessity for many of the members who were constantly ex- 
changing, so there was little time lost in obtaining the stationery. 
Several members, interested in the Southwest Museum, a young and 
thriving institution, thought that the use of the Museum name on club 
stationery would call to the attention of correspondents the existence 
of a museum that was heretofore unknown to many. In return for 
this Dr. Alliot, the Curator, very kindly agreed with one of the mem- 
bers to permit the club to use the name of the museum on its stationery 
as a permanent address, to which any correspondence could be directed. 
Soon after, the club took up the matter of club pins, and the de- 
sign of a four-petaled poppy was chosen with the club initials — L. N. 
H. and C. — one letter being on each petal. 
In 1916 Donuil Hillis, one of the charter members, suggested the 
printing of signs warning people not to kill harmlesss snakes, on ac- 
count of the great benefit they prove themselves in the destruction of 
rodents, some of which are disease-bearing and dangerous. This sug- 
gestion found ready support from the herpetologists of the club and 
also from the members interested in other lines. Therefore, when the 
warm rays of the summer sun brought the Californian snakes from 
their winter hibernating quarters there were posted in mountains, val- 
leys and canyons signs that read as follows: 
DO NOT KILL HARMLESS SNAKES? 
They are useful in destroying disease-bearing rodents. 
The only harmful snake in California is the Rattlesnake. 
LoRQUiN Natural History Club, Los Angkles. 
On some of these signs is painted the altitude at which the signs 
are posted. On the original sign, of which the rest were to have been 
duplicates, the name "Southwest Museum" was given as an address. 
Inadvertently this was omitted in all the signs posted. 
At the May meeting of the club, during the present year, the 
