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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 office 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 numbers 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.

WILLIAM KEITH-Nov. 18, 1838-Apr. 13, 1911.

There are few members of the Sierra Club whose death could cause greater and more widespread grief than that of William Keith. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and died at his home in Berkeley. The greater part of his life was spent in California, and his paintings of the "California Alps," as he used to call the Sierra, are masterpieces. We have lost a master painter, but his wonderful work, which was the expression of his best rare qualities, is still with us and in that sense he is immortal. Our sincerest sympathy is extended to his widow. Mr. Keith was a charter member of the Sierra Club.

WILLIAM RUSSELL DUDLEY-1849-1911.

The eminent botanist, William Russell Dudley, died at Stanford University on June 4th. He was born in Guilford, Connecticut, was a member of the faculty of Cornell University for sixteen years, and was connected with Stanford University since 1892. He was for many years a member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, until failing health compelled him to resign. He attended some of the Club Outings and many of our members will recall his lovable personal qualities. He was very active in advancing the cause of Forestry in this State and the creation of the State Redwood Park was probably as much due to his influence and effort as to that of any other one person. We all feel his loss most keenly.

ROOSEVELT ON SCENIC BEAUTY.

On the occasion of the reception given to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt by the Faculty Club of the University of California a copy of Professor Willis Linn Jepson's book entitled "The Silva of California" was presented to the honored guest of the evening. The speech of presentation was made by Professor Bernard Moses, who spoke as follows:—

"My friends and colleagues, Mr. Roosevelt, wish me to give expression to the sentiments which you have inspired in them by your call to public righteousness and your efforts to conserve to us and our children the natural resources and the natural beauties of our country. They also wish me to give you this volume, by Mr. Jepson, on the forests of California.

"We of California, as all the world knows, are a modest folk. We seldom boast of our State; we only say very simply that the Lord never made a better land than this. But notwithstanding our modest reticence, we are proud of our heritage, our hills and valleys, our forests and mountains. We like our mountains, and are glad that no man can pull them down and put them on the market. We like our forests, but already the hand of the spoiler is stretched out towards them, and, unless resistance is offered, the glorious aisles of these nature temples, which no man built, may yet become the waste places of the universe.

"We are profoundly grateful to you, sir, for your efforts to stay the destruction of the spoiler. To you and to some of us, nature is something more than a mass of objects to be torn asunder, and to be gathered in heaps and sold. Nature presents an appeal to our sense of beauty; and, in the case of our magnificent forests, which stand in solemn grandeur, it awakens those higher sentiments akin to adoration. But every worship must have its books of devotion, and for us, in our devotion to the forests of California, one of our colleagues, Professor Jepson, has prepared this book for our guidance. In the name of this little company, in the name of the University, in the name of the author, whose work has conferred honor not only upon us and the University, but also upon the State which gave him birth, I beg leave to present this volume to you; and in doing so let me offer the wish of all of us, that your voice may continue to ring true yet these many years."

In his response Mr. Roosevelt began by expressing his thankfulness for the book. Turning over the pages and looking at the text and illustrations, he declared that it would be useful in telling him what he most desired to know about the forests of California. "This State," he said, "has been dowered with

beauty. If there is any country finer than California I do not know it. All the tones of nature are within its border. This country has glorious mountain ranges and valleys, splendid forests, great snow-peaks, the wonderful sequoias-and for all these things none of you deserve the slightest credit. (Applause and laughter.) The progress of true civilization is best shown by the increasing thought which each generation takes for the good of those who are to come after. You can ruin its forests, you can dry up its streams, you can hack and scar its surface until its marvelous beauty is gone. The preservation of the forest resources of this State, especially, is of vital importance to the commonwealth. I go farther. No State can be judged to be really civilized which in the treatment of its natural resources does not take account of, or aim to, preserve the beauty of the land in which its people live. An æsthetic as well as economic factor is involved in the problem of conservation. Poor, indeed, is the conservation which does not also conserve beauty.

"There is another matter of which I would like to speak in relation to the sequoias. Don't mutilate them. Don't let others mutilate them. Don't use them for advertising. I was amazed to see the trunks of the big trees at Santa Cruz covered with visiting and business cards. It seems inconceivably vulgar for a man to attach his worthless name by means of paste-board to these giants of the forest! In Egypt I actually once observed how a man had gone about with a pot of paint putting his name on the temples and pyramids. I wish I had been guardian of Egypt; I should have put him through a course in æsthetics by forced marches. I hope that this commonwealth will continue in the course it has taken and remain a watchful guardian of its natural resources and the beauty of its scenery."

OLD TIOGA ROAD TO BE ACQUIRED.

The following news item appeared in the daily press last April: "The Government brought suit in the United States Circuit Court yesterday to condemn an unused toll road in order to make it part of the new system of roads through the Yosemite National Park. The road begins at Crockers station, Tuolumne County, and extends through a corner of Mariposa County into Bennettsville, Mono County. It was built in 1883 by the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company, and is fifty-six miles long. When the mines ceased to operate in 1892 the road was allowed to fall into disuse. W. C. N. Swift, as successor to the company's claims, is named as defendant."

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NORTH DOME, ROYAL ARCHES, WASHINGTON COLUMN, HALF DOME, YOSEMITE.
SHOWS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE MERCED RIVER.
Photograph by Pillsbury Picture Company.

SIERRA CLUB CAMP-SITE, 1911,

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UNVEILING THE STEVENSON MONUMENT, MT. ST. HELENA, MAY 7, 1911.

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