| Summary: | Under the caption ""Natural Science Association,"" the announcement quoted above appears as an advertisement in the Morning Oregonian on the dates indicated. On January 12, under the title ""Mr. Muir's Lecture,"" is the statement: ""He will illustrate . . . on the blackboard thus making the lecture entertaining as well as instructive. His exquisite drawings have appeared in Scribner [sic] and Harper [sic]. Will be able to recognize the artist as well as the scientist."" On Jan. 13 (p. 3, col. 1), in a column entitled ""Mr. Muir's Lecture,"" a reporter writes: ""Mr. Muir began the delivery of his lecture in an easy off-hand manner. Perhaps his strongest point is his naturalness and truthfulness; he has been for years a patient, conscientious student of nature amid solemn, silent grandeur. The scenes he has gazed upon seemed to have left their stamp upon him."" The writer relates that Muir's discourse defined a glacier, the origin of icebergs, and ""characterized the Yosemite Valley as the great gorge once the channel of a glacier, canyons being formed in a like manner.""
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