310 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



The death of the eminent naturalist, Dr. A. A. Gould, of Boston, 

 was announced by Dr. Gibbons. 



Regular Meeting, December 3d, 1866. 



President in the chair. 



Nineteen members present. 

 Donations to the Library : 



Sechster Bericht des Offenbacher Vereins fur Naturkunde, 8vo., 



1865. Jahrbuch der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt, xvi Band, 

 No. 1., 8vo., Wien, 1866. Monatsbericht der koniglichen Preus- 

 sischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Jan.-Mai, 1866, 

 5 parts, 8 vo., Berlin, 1866. Acta Universitatis Lundensis, 1864, 

 2 parts, 4to., Lund. 1864-5. Transactions of the Connecticut 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 1, Part 1, 8vo., New Haven, 



1866. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, 4to., 

 Vol. 1, Part 1, Boston, 1866. Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Nos. 2 and 3, 1866, 8vo., Phil., 

 1866. Proceedings of the Essex Institute, vol. 5, No. 1, 8vo., 

 Salem, 1866. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, vol. 10, Sheets 4-23, 8vo., Boston, 1866. Annals of the 

 Lyceum of Natural History of New York, vol. 8, Nos. 6-12, 8vo., 

 New York, 1865-6. Proceedings of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, vol. 1, Sheets 1-3, 8vo., Chicago, 1866. Proceedings 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 7, 8vo., 

 Boston, 1865-6. All the above were presented by the societies or 

 authors named ; and the foreign publications were received through 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Mr. Stearns exhibited specimens of Petricola carditoides and 

 Pholadidea ovoidea, in unusually hard serpentine, collected by him- 

 self at Fort Point, San Francisco. 



Professor Whitney read some extracts from letters just received 



