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Turritellaseriatini-granulata Roem. Cardium Tippanum?Con. Chemnitzia 

 (?) gloriosa Roem. Trigonia Evansii ? Meek. Neithea quadricostata Sow. Ex. 

 ogyra Texana Roem. Turbinolia Te'xana Con. 



Regular Meeting, Mat 16th, 1864. 

 President in the Chair. 



Fourteen members present. 



Rev. Mr. Neri, of Santa Clara, was elected a corresponding 

 member. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Volcanic cement, from Sierra County, 

 containing fossil wood ; also a magnesian mineral, from a cavity in 

 a quartz vein near Nebraska, Sierra County. Mr. Clayton stated 

 that when found it was gelatinous, semi-transparent, and mixed with 

 loose quartz crystals ; but on drying it shrank greatly in bulk and 

 became fibrous, like fine Asbestos. The miners say that it is not 

 uncommon in that locality. 



Seeds of a large Melon Cactus, from the Colorado deserts ; also 

 seeds of a fine nutritious " bunch grass," from the dry foot hills 

 near Fresno river, by Mr. J. E. Clayton. 



Mr. Brewer stated that he had obtained further information 

 regarding the coal brought before the Academy Feb. 15th, by Prof. 

 Blake. On the authority of J. Ross Browne and another gentle- 

 man, he had learned that no coal occurs in the locality near the 

 Colorado River then mentioned, and that the specimens Avere 

 English coal carried up the river by speculators for the purpose of 

 swindling the public by selling stock in a fictitious coal mine. 



Regular Meeting, June 6th, 1864. 



President in the Chair. 



Nine members present. 



Donations to the Cabinet : A piece of sandstone resembling in 

 shape a human foot, by Mr. Ed. Webber. 



Donations to the Library: American Journal of Science and 



