PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 

 Vol. V, Nos. 7 and 8, pp. 195-223. May 4, 1916 



VII 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY 



FOR THE YEAR 1915 



BY 



C. E. Grunsky 

 President of' the Academy 



For the year which has just closed the Acadeni}'^ can again 

 record progress. The construction of the Museum building 

 in Golden Gate Park had been sufficiently advanced in August, 

 1915, to make possible a transfer of the Academy's collec- 

 tions, of its library, and of its offices, from the temporary 

 quarters of the last few years at No. 343 Sansome Street. 



This annual meeting is notable, therefore, because it is the 

 first annual meeting, and in fact, the first meeting, at the 

 Academy's new quarters in its Museum building in Golden 

 Gate Park. It may be well in passing again to call attention 

 to the fact that the privilege to build here was granted by the 

 people of San Francisco at a public election on November 

 15, 1910. 



The Academy has planned a building which is specially 

 adapted to Museum purposes but which will also afford ade- 

 quate space and facilities for research work and for the storage 

 and preservation of research material. 



Of the proposed building a first section only has been 

 erected, covering about one-third of the ground space which it 

 is proposed ultimately to occupy. The cost of the building 



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