FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN, b. Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., Aug. 29, 1860. Ed. State Normal, Fredonia, N.Y. Grad. B.S., University Mich., 1890.  Ph.D., University Calif., 1896.  Engaged in geological and geographical work:  State Mining Bureau. 1890-1894.  Asst.  U.S.  Geological Survey, 1897-98. Author: text books:  Stories of Our Mother Earth. 60c.  Home Geography.  Rocks and Minerals.  All by Ed. Pub.  Co., Boston.  Physiography of California.  Macmillan.  The Western United States.  D.C.  Heath.  Practical Physiography for High Schools.  Allyn & Bacon. Address: Arch St., Berkeley, Calif.

FORBES, MRS. A.S.C. (nee Harrye Smith) b. Pennsylvania.  Came California 1895.  Works for re-establishment of El Camino Real.  Created and established Nat.  Naval Memorial. Author: Mission Tales in Days of the Dons. $1.50.  California Missions and Landmarks. 25c. Address: 1104 Lyndon St., South Pasadena, Calif.

GATES, ELEANOR (Mrs. R.W.  Tully.) Ed. Stanford, Univ. of Calif.  Leaped into fame with her first book.  Biography of a Prairie Girl, first pub. in Century Magazine. Author: Biography of a Prairie Girl, 1904.  The Plow Woman, 1907.  Cupid, the Cow Punch, 1908.  Good Night, 1908. Address: Alma, Calif.

GUINN, J.M., writer of History of Southern California.  Secretary S. Cal.  Hist.  Soc.  Member Los Angeles Board of Education. Address: 5539 Monte Vista St., Los Angeles, Calif.

HART, JEROME ALFRED, b. San Francisco.  Sept. 6, 1854. Ed. Cal. public schools.  Asso. editor, 1880-91. editor, 1891-1906.  San Francisco Argonaut, to which contributed letters of foreign travel (1887-1904), and translations from French, German, Spanish, etc.  Sec. 1880-91, pres. 1891-1906, of The Argonaut Publishing Co. Author: Argonaut Letters, 1900.  Two Argonauts in Spain. 1904.  A Levantine Log-Book, 1905.  Argonaut Stories (edited) 1906.  Contributor to magazines, etc. Address: Weyewolde, Santa Clara Co..  Calif.

HIBBARD, GRACE, b. Mass. Ed. in Mass. Author: Wild Poppies.  Moulton, Buffalo, N.Y. $1.00.  California Violets.  Robertson, S.F. $1.00.  Wild Roses of California.  Robertson. $1.00.  Forget-Me-Nots From California.  Robertson. $1.00.  Booklets:  More California Violets. 25c.  California Christmas Songs. 25c.  Daffodils. 25c.  Songs of the Samisen. 25c.  ’Neath Monterey Pines. 25c.  Del Monte Oaks. 25c.  Santa Claus Cheated, and Other Christmas Stories.  Twenty-eight poems have been set to music. Address: Pacific Grove, Calif.

HOLDEN, EDWARD SINGLETON, b. St. Louis, Nov. 5. 1846. Grad. Wash.  Univ., 1866.  West Point 1870.  Pres.  Univ. of Cal. 1885-8.  Director Lick Observatory 1888-98.  Librarian U.S.  Military Acad. since 1901. Author: many scientific works.  See Who’s Who.  Handbook Lick Observatory, 1888.  Mountain Observatories, 1896.  Pacific Coast Earthquakes, 1898, etc. Address: West Point, N.Y., and Century Club, New York.