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April 21. 



May 19. 



June 16. 

 July 21. 

 August 18. 



Septembek 15. 

 October 20. 

 November 17. 

 December 15. 



"Physiographically Unfinished Entrance to San Francisco 

 Bay." 



Dr. Ruliff S. Holway, Professor of Geography, Uni- 

 versity of California. 

 "The Status and Life History of the Tree Mouse, Phena- 

 comys longicaudus True." 



Dr. Walter P. Taylor, University of California. 

 "The Food of the Roadrunner in California." 



Dr. Harold C. Bryant, University of California. 

 "The Lessons of the Southeast Wind." 



Dr. Marsden Manson, San Francisco. 

 "Administration of Fish and Game Laws." 



Ernest Schaeffle, Secretary California Fish and Game 



Commission. 

 "Snap-shots in Brazil." 



Prof. E. C. Starks, Stanford University. 

 "Pearls and Pearl Culture." 



Prof. Charles A. Kofoid, University of California. 

 "Some Fishes and Fishing in CaHfornia and Nevada." 



Prof. John O. Snyder, Stanford University. 

 "Ancient Climates of the West Coast." 



Dr. James Perrin Smith, Stanford University. 



FINANCIAL 



The financial transactions of the Academy are fully set 

 forth in the Treasurer's report and in the financial records. 

 From these it appears that our gross annual income is about 

 $67,500, of which about $46,272 is the net return from the 

 Academy's Market Street property and about $1500 is the 

 amount received from members as admission fees and dues. 

 The Academy has recently borrowed the sum of $32,175 in 

 order to advance the completion of its building and the instal- 

 lation of exhibits. The total obligations on which interest is 

 now being paid is in round numbers $332,000. 



The gross annual receipts from the Market Street property 

 for twelve months are about $64,272, and the interest on the 

 $300,000 for which this property is mortgaged to the New 

 York Mutual Life Insurance Company is $18,000, leaving the 

 net annual return from this property $46,272, as above stated. 



The expenditures in the calendar year 1915 will give some 

 idea of how the available funds, apart from the investment 

 in the Museum building and in exhibits, have been used. The 

 amount of interest paid was $18,257.05, and interest received 



