The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-18
r. BEHR THINKS so TOO.
The Calm in the Academy of
Sciences Broken.
CONSERVATION AMID MEMBERS
The Report of the Nominating Com
mittee Failed to Meet With
Favor-The Result.

A storm may break about the head of
Professor Il. W. Hardness, the white
haired president for nearly twenty years
of the Academy Of Sciences in this city.
Its first mutterings were heard last night.
1t all came about at meeting of the
society In Academy Hail. The secretary
of the committee appointed at the last
meeting 10 select candidates for the annual
election, which takes place next month.
read the names of the successful aspirants,
which, with but few exceptions. Tailed
W tn the present roll of officials.
Notably among the exceptions was the
substitution of the name of George G.
Edwards, in place of the incum bent, to the
office of Secretary Charles G. Yale. An
other was noted in the absence of DR..
Behr's name for the vice-presidency. po-
sition which he had occupied 1or nearly
sixteen years.
Directly at the close of the announce
mept Mr.. Yale rose to his feet and sup
porting himself with both hands, which
rested upon the desk, leaned forward and
in a tone which seemed to carry with it a
conviction said:
II am not here to criticize the actions of
your committee. neither do | ask the prlvi-
lege of airing grievance. but do wish to
say it is my opinion that your committee
has made an invidious comparison In Sc
Letting candidates for the coming election.
"Dr Behr, whose long service to the
society is matter of record. and who in
times when we were laborlng under diff
entities came TO the rescue, as all of you are
aware. is cast aside and publicly lnsuIted
because he does not seek favor among
these men, and comparative stranger is
placed in his place.
"A< another instance of the methods of
this worthy body, l ask you to look at the
nominations of Moore and FoOte for the
Offices of corresponding secretary and
treasurer respectively. Neither of these
gentlemen has attended a meeting of the
society save upon one occasion for years.
and that was the night when the nominal
ing committee was selected. Neither can
| recollect having seen any member of the
committee in question present at meet
iugs, except, or course, upon the occasion
of their election.
For sixteen years l have acted as your
secretary, and. with the exception of one
evening, | have attended every meeting of
the society during that time; and all this
without SALARY. IS it right?'
DR.. Behr followed with few pointed
remarks. He said that he was deeply
affected at b ing thus thrown aside alter
twenty years faithful service, but would
take his medicine like a little man and
ABIDE by the decision of the committee.
The nominating committee consists of
the folOwing-named gentlemen: j. G..
King, w. +. Myers. G. Schloche, d. II.
Moore and d. j. Staples.
AT the close of the meeting, Secretary
Yale expressed himself more freely in the
matter.
"rhe whole trouble" be said, ''lies in
the fact of my refusing to follow the die
tates Of Hardness. During the past few
years he has assumed dictatorial tone,
which has grown to such an extent that he
imagines every one inferior 10 him IN office,
a slave TO MS calling.
This spirit only came on when the So
ciety began to come up out of the financial
swamp into which we had fallen years
ago. ana ever since James Lick died ana
subsequent beoues,s have come to our
rescue. his mind has become ihflamed with
the exuberance Of such luck. and the flush
OF his own concelt mas led MIN to Imagine
1t all his own.
81 am not looking after the office, but /
do detest this underhand work which
Hark ess has resorted to in effectng my
downfall"
There were not a few among those rres-
ent who gave vent TO their Indignation by
u:terances which would burn in the ears
of the members of the committee and
President Hardness himself should they
have been overheard. But they were not,
and possibly the only way 10 which this
feeling of discon lent may be ventilated
Will be by placing an anti Hardness
ticket in the coming election, as & promi-
nent member suggested. and 80 Ousting
the alleged motive power of the whole
scheme. The forestry committee pre-
sented a set of resolu ons for adoption
denouncing the amendments to various
bills now before Congress proposing to
eliminate from the reservation all lands
which their supporters claim TO be more
valuable for Agricultural purposes.
The names as presented by the nomi-
mating committee are as follows:
President. II. W. Hardness: first vice.
president. Charles 81. Gilbert; second vice.
president, j. G. COOPER; corresponding
secretary. George A. Moore; recording
secretary. George c. Edwards; treasurer,
l.. II. Foote; librarian, Carlos Troyer
director ofmuseum. j. II Davis; trustees
W. Z. Burnett. Charles F. Crockcr. E. j.
Molera, d. E. Hayes. George G. Perkins,
W. S. Chapman, John Taylor.