Library.

Throughout the Summer Session the University Library will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The library privileges, including the home use of books, as accorded to regular University students, will be extended to students in the summer courses. No additional fee is required. Persons who may desire to pursue independent courses of reading or study, during the Summer Session, without attending any of the regular exercises, may have full library privileges, upon application to the Librarian, and upon payment of $10.00 as a deposit. In every case the deposit, less unpaid fines or charges, is returned at the close of the Session.

Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.

The Young Men's and Young Women's Christian. Associations publish, jointly, a Students' Handbook, containing a map of the University campus and vicinity, a directory of churches, of University organizations and of important points about Berkeley; also street car and train time tables, college songs and yells, etc. The Handbook is distributed free to students in the Summer Session. It will be issued about June 15.

Stiles Hall, the Association Building, is open daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A will maintain an Information Bureau during the opening days of the Summer Session. The lounging and reading rooms and the services of the General Secretaries are at the disposal of students of the Summer Session.

University Calendar.

The University of California Calendar will be issued every Friday throughout the Summer Session. The Calendar contains announcements of lectures, University Meet

ings, exhibits, meetings of University organizations, etc., and information concerning the Library, museums, art galleries, observatories, and other parts of the University of interest to visitors. It will be mailed to any address for the six weeks of the Summer Session for twenty-five cents. During the college year the subscription price is twentyfive cents per half-year. Communications should be addressed to the University Press, University of California, Berkeley.

Reduced Railroad Fares.

Reduced rates of one first-class round-trip at the rate of a fare and a third, on the certificate plan, are offered by the Southern Pacific Company and by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé to attendants upon the Summer Session from all points in California, and to attendants from points in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas west of Albuquerque, Ogden, and El Paso. Full fare should be paid to Berkeley, and a receipt obtained from the agent from whom the ticket is purchased. Upon the presentation to the Southern Pacific ticket agent in Berkeley, or to the Santa Fé agents at 641 Market Street, San Francisco, or at the Santa Fé ticket office in the San Francisco Ferry Building, of a certificate to be obtained from the Recorder of the Faculties, a ticket to the starting place will be sold at onethird the regular fare.

The going-trip ticket can be bought only between June 12 and August 5. The return-trip ticket will not be sold later than forty-eight hours after August 5-the close of the Summer Session-and will be good only for a continuous journey, to be entered upon the day the ticket is bought.

It should be remembered that the rate is obtainable only through the sale of the ticket for the return-trip, and that this ticket for the return-trip can be obtained only upon

presentation of the certificate issued by the Recorder of the Faculties.

The coöperation of all who receive this circular is requested in extending this notice to others who may be interested.

Site and Climate.

The site of the University of California, at Berkeley, California, comprises about two hundred and seventy acres of land, rising at first in a gentle and then in a bolder slope from a height of about two hundred feet above the sea level to one of over nine hundred feet. It thus covers a range of more than seven hundred feet in altitude, while back of it the chain of hills continues to raise a thousand feet higher. It has a superb outlook over the bay and city of San Francisco, over the neighboring plains and mountains, and the ocean. Berkeley is a town of 25,000 people. San Francisco is eleven miles distant by train and boat, and may be reached in less than forty minutes; there are five trains an hour: fare, ten cents. Oakland may be reached by street car in twenty minutes.

Meteorological observations made at the University for the past fifteen years indicate that the summer months at Berkeley are exceptionally well suited for uninterrupted university work.

The mean temperature for the months of June, July. and August is, respectively, 59.3, 59.2, and 59.2 degrees. The mean maximum temperature (the average for the month of the daily maximum temperatures) is 71.1, 70.3, and 69.8 degrees; and the mean minimum temperature 52.7. 53.6, and 54.1 degrees. The average daily variation in the temperature is 18.4, 16.7, and 15.7 degrees.

Only once during the last fifteen years-in July, 1891did the temperature exceed 100 degrees. The average of

the highest temperatures observed in each of the fifteen years was 91.3 degrees.

The prevailing mean temperature for the six weeks of the Summer Session is about 60 degrees, with 72 and 54 degrees as the extreme limits of variation for mean temperature. During the hottest part of the warmest day it is rarely that the temperature exceeds 91 degrees. It is to be remembered that in California high temperatures are almost invariably accompanied by very low humidity. On this account such temperatures are very rarely oppressive.

Although rain seldom falls during the summer months, excessive summer heat is practically unknown; a gentle southwest breeze from the bay, rarely exceeding fifteen miles an hour, renders the climate agreeable and stimulating. During the summer months the days are either clear or fair, only about one day in three being foggy or cloudy.

THE UNIVERSITY.

The University of California (founded in 1860) is by the terms of its charter an integral part of the educational system of the State. At Berkeley are its Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry; at Mount Hamilton is its graduate Astronomical department, founded by James Lick; in San Francisco are its Colleges of Art, Law, Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. The University's endowment is capitalized at about eleven million dollars; its yearly income is about seven hundred thousand dollars; it has received private benefactions to the amount of nearly five million dollars. The University is indebted to Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst for permanent building plans, upon a scale appropriate and comprehensive. At Berkeley there are one hundred and seventy-five officers of instruction distributed among thirty-six departments; twenty-seven hundred students; a library of over one hunded and thirty-two thousand volumes; an art gallery; museums and laboratories; also the agricultural experiment grounds and station, which are invaluable adjuncts of the farming, orchard, and vineyard interests of the State. In San Francisco there are one hundred and fifty officers of instruction, besides demonstrators and other assistants, and five hundred and seventy-five students. Tuition in the academic departments of the University, during regular sessions, is free to residents of California; non-residents pay a fee of $10 each half-year. Instruction in all of the colleges is open to all qualified persons, without distinction of sex.

EQUIPMENT.

LIBRARY.

The General Library, kept in the Bacon Art and Library Building, now contains over one hundred and thirty-two thousand volumes, and has been arranged with a view to making it especially