University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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tHIS Association was formed in November of this academic year by a number of the faculty and students interested in scientific subjects. Its object is by periodical meetings to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science and to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research at the Univer- sity of California. The Association is divided into sections, pursuing studies in different departments of science, as follows: 1. Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy section. 2. Chemistry section. 3. Geology and Mineralogy section. 4. Botany section. 5. Zoology section. 6. Economic Science section. The sections elect their own officers and have meetings for discussion and reading of original papers. Eight general meetings of the Association are held during the acad- emic year, at which matters of general scientific interest are considered. 113

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tHE Book Club is a lending library whose peculiar province is the procuring of just published books. The members pay $1.00 enroll- ment fee, and 50 cents a month dues ; and from the funds thus accumulated weekly purchases of books are made, under the condition that no book over a year old shall be purchased. The club has a locked book- case in the North Reading-room of the library, from which each member can take two books at a time and keep them for two weeks. It is intended in the future to hold auction sales every six months of the stock which has been on hand over a year, members alone bidding. The official organization of the club consists of a manager. There are at present forty-five members ; and the number of volumes circulating among them is 120. To secure the best results a larger membership is needed. 112

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The following papers have been read before the Association: February 8. An Anomalous Topographic Form and an Associated Frequency of Native Iron Occurring at Coon Mountain, Arizona By WIZARD D. JOHNSON, U. S. G. S. Introductory remarks by PROFESSOR LAWSON on the normal character of craters, and on the relation between meteoric and terrestrial iron. March i. Historical Notes on Some California Trees. By PROFESSOR GREENE. Some Oregon Trees. By DR. GIBBONS. April 5. Legal Tender Notes in California. By PROF. BERNARD MOSES. Many interesting and valuable papers have also been read before the several sections. il iDTjieers. PROF. GREENE President of the Association PROF. E. O ' NEiu. Secretary of the Association PROF. F. SOULE President of the Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy section PROF. W. B. RISING President of the Chemistry section PROF. A. C. LAWSON President of the Geology and Mineralogy section W. L. JEPSON President of the Botany section W. E. RiTTER President of the Zoology section PROF. B. MOSES President of the Economic Science section ers. Members are of two ranks: First, corporate members, consisting of officers, graduates and graduate students of the University of California, who are actively interested in scientific work; and, secondly, undergraduates and other persons interested in science. There are fifty-five corporate and thirty-six associate members in the Association. 114