448  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A^xll\^xfmam~ 
the  local  druggists  took  charge  of  the  visitors,  and  showed  them  the  city  and 
its  surroundings.  Lake  Merritt,  Pleasant  Valley,  the  Sulphur  Springs  and  many 
other  places  of  interest  were  visited,  the  day  closing  with  a  banquet  at  Tubbs 
Hotel,  where  brief  speeches  were  made  by  a  number  of  members  previous  to 
final  adjournment. 
Saturday  morning  closed  the  week's  entertainments  with  an  excursion 
around  the  Bay  of  San  Francisco,  on  board  the  steamer  James  M.  Donohue. 
The  route  was  around  Alcatrez  Island  to  the  Presidio,  Fort  Point,  the  Golden 
Gate,  Saucelito,  Raccoon  Straits,  Red  Rock  and  past  Oakland,  Alameda  and 
Hunter's  Point.  Shortly  after  two  o'clock  the  landing  was  effected  and  after 
bidding  their  hosts  good  bye  the  visitors  returned  to  the  hotel,  and  a  large 
number  of  them  took  the  afternoon  train  for  San  Jose"  and  for  the  Hotel  del 
Monte,  on  the  Bay  of  Monterey,  where  the  Sunday  was  spent.  The  stately 
palms  and  cacti,  the  large  live  oaks  and  coniferous  trees,  the  ancient  town  of 
Monterey,  with  its  relics,  the  drive  along  the  beaches,  through  cypress  grover 
etc..  formed  novel  attractions  for  the  visitors. 
Monday,  July  1st,  was  the  day  which  found  most  of  the  visiting  members 
engaged  in  making  preparations  for  leaving  hospitable  San  Francisco.  A 
party  of  about  fifteen  made  the  journey  to  the  famous  Yosemite  Valley  with 
its  towering  rocks  and  grand  waterfalls,  took  a  look  at  the  peaks  of  the  Lyell 
group  of  the  Sierra,  and  paid  a  visit  to  the  big  trees,  Sequoia  gigantea,  in  the 
Mariposa  grove,  where  the  famous  "  grizzly  giant,"  the  "  wawona  "  (through 
which  the  stage  pacses),  and  many  other  forest  giants  have  their  home.  Most 
of  the  members  on  their  homeward  journey  went  northward,  passing  Mount 
Shasta  and  through  the  Willamette  valley,  to  Portland,  Ore.,  and  Tacoma,. 
Wash.  Excursions  were  made  up  the  Columbia  river,  and  on  Puget  Sound  to 
Seattle  and  Victoria ;  and  on  the  line  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  some 
stopped  at  Spokane  Falls,  Helena  and  other  places,  and  then  visited  the  Yel- 
lowstone National  Park,  with  its  numerous  hot  springs,  active  geysers,  grand 
waterfalls  and  the  magnificent  and  picturesque  grand  canon. 
Most  of  the  Eastern  members  stopped  for  a  day  or  two  in  Minneapolis,  St. 
Paul  and  Chicago,  and  then  returned  to  their  homes,  some  having  journeyed 
over  8,800  miles  by  railroad  and  about  300  miles  by  stage.  It  was  a  memorable 
trip  for  each  one.  Aside  from  the  works  erected  by  human  hands,  the  varied 
scenery,  the  changes  in  climate,  the  strange  flora,  the  native  forests,  the  groves 
of  tropical  trees  planted  for  timber  or  fruit,  the  extensive  deserts,  the  broad 
and  fertile  valleys,  the  wild  canons,  the  snow-capped  mo  an  tains  and  the 
natural  wonders  of  Yosemite  and  of  Yellowstone  Park  made  impressions 
which  can  never  be  effaced  from  memory. 
