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Regular Meeting, July 1st, 1867. 

 Vice President Ransom in the Chair. 



Twenty members present. 



Donations to the Cabinet: Native oysters, ((?. laticaudata) 

 also varieties of Purpura lactuca, from Dr. Cooper ; cone of 

 Pinus conto?'ta, and branch and fruit of Garrya elliptica from 

 Port Trinidad ; eggs, cocoon, and animal of the California silk- 

 worm, (Saturnia Californica) by Dr. Lanszweert; Aristolochia 

 Californica, from Angel Island, by Mr. E. Brooks. 



Mr. Stearns read a note from Professor W. P. Blake, stating 

 that the fossil vertebrae which he exhibited at the meeting of 

 November 18th, 1866, were not those of saurians, as he had sup- 

 posed, but of one of the larger forms of Delphinidce. 



Mr. Stearns exhibited specimens of Haliotis from Monterey, 

 which were evidently hybrid forms. Some remarks on the pecu- 

 liarities and geographical distribution of these mollusks were made 

 by Messrs. Stearns and Cooper. 



Dr. W. P. Gibbons made some additional remarks, supplementary 

 to his communication, at a previous meeting, on the extinct red- 

 wood forests of the Coast Ranges on the east side of the Bay of 

 San Francisco. These remarks were followed by a discussion in 

 which Messrs. Cooper, Kellogg, Bolander, Veatch, and Stearns 

 took part. 



Regular Meeting, July 15th, 1867. 

 Vice President Ransom in the Chair. 



Twenty-five members present. 



Messrs. W. A. S. Nicholson, A. B. Stout, M.D., and C. W. 

 McCormick, M.D., were elected Resident Members. 



Donation to the Cabinet: Specimen of asbestos, from L. Ran- 

 som, Esq. 



A collection of the shells of California, comprising in part the 

 specimens belonging to the Academy and which had been sent 

 to Mr. Carpenter to be named, was exhibited by Dr. Cooper, by 

 whom they had been arranged for the Museum. 



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