Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

TUITION

For the School of Methods, including music and Drawing (3 weeks) $10 00 Music and Drawing alone for 1 week, each ... ... ... ... 5 00 For 2 weeks, each ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 00 For the Academic Department, (6 weeks) ... ... ... 15 00 For Both Courses ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 00 For 15 lessons, in Delsarte, in class ... ... ... ... 7 50 ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ BOARD

Board and rooms can be had at reasonable rates. Those who desire to do so, can rent rooms and board themselves. Rooms will be secured on application to managers. ___________________

The managers have secured the best talent available in each subject.

Opportunities for recreation will be provided. The social gatherings of last year will be repeated on a larger scale, and no effort will be spared to render this THIRD SESSION of the Summer School of Southern California worthy of the patronage of all. ____________________

SANTA MONICA

Is the popular summer resort of Southern California, and is situated seventeen miles west of Los Angeles, upon a high bluff overlooking the ocean. Opportunities for recreation, including surf-bathing, mountain-climbing, fern-gathering, etc., are unsurpassed.

For additional particulars address the managers at Santa Monica, or A. W. Plummer, Los Angeles.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Summer School for Teachers,

SANTA MONICA, CALIF., July 6 to August 14, 1891.

In addition to the corps of Instructors, already announced,we have mad arrangements with

MR. A. J. McCLATCHIE, A SPECIALIST IN BIOLOGY.

to give instructions in Practical Zoology, Botany, and Microscopy. This work will consist chiefly of dissecting and drawing typical forms, studying their structure, habits, and relative positions in the more recent systems of classification. Ocean forms will receive especial attention. Instruction will also be given in the preparation of Microscopic Slides.

Each one intending to take up this work should be supplied with a glass, a good knife, a pair of scissors, and some text book.

Tuition for the above will be Five Dollars for three weeks, or Eight Dollars for the full course of six weeks.

E. P. ROWELL, A. W. PLUMMER, } Managers.

Will Superintendents and Principals receiving these Circulars, please distribute them among their Teachers.

Elsinore, Calif. Dec 6 '91

Prof. C. E. Bessey My Dear Professor: I have just finished preparing a [bo ] for the express office containing some terrestrial and aquatic plants. For the sea-weeds Mrs. M Clatchie and myself (about a month before we were married) made two 15 mile trips in August two rocky points southwest from Los Angeles, and gathered them from the rocks during low tide. Although we had spent some time at other points along the coast, we found nearly

everything there strange and interesting. Some of the caldron-shaped cavities were delightfully beautiful. I could not place, at all, the two specimens that are by themselves. The one in the vial grows upon rocks between tide marks. The other grows below low-water mark mostly. Both present a bright green appearance in the water - the former a light green and the latter a very dark green Both are undoubtedly familiar to you. The terrestrial plants were brought home from a trip to a canon five miles distant yesterday. It is one across the lake from Elsinore, on the north side of the Sanita Rose

mountains and seldom receives any sunshine The sun did not shine in there yesterday at midday. I was surprised to find so many plants found, in [ ], only in the wet, swampy regions. Four species of Hepaticae grew in great abundance Mosses were there in endless variety. Ferns were abundant, and even the Lycopods were represented by one pretty little species growing in profusion upon the granite rocks. All these were growing in or upon the partially decomposed granite, some of them having but a shallow depth of this material. I enclose in the box specimens of most of the forms we secured yesterday.