Excerpt from Southern California Practitioner, 1908, Vol. 23 During the past year your president has endeavored to be punctual in call ing the meetings to order, and he would suggest that this policy be continued. If our meetings are announced for they should begin at that time. When the members once learn that the meet ings will begin promptly they will come On time; but if they know they will begin late, they will have an excuse for delay in coming to the meetings. The member who comes on time deserves consideration, but if the policy of delay is followed, his interests are ignored. There are two very important pur poses served by the county society: the scientific and the social. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.