ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. G3 



Regular Meeting, July 17, 187G. 



Vice-President Edwards in the Chair. 

 Twenty-five members present. 



Donations to the Museum: From M. D. Hyde, vial of mud 

 from soundings made from the "Tuscarora." From Henry 

 Edwards, Hi/la, sp., Eutcenia sirlalis, Allorchestes plumulosus. 



In the donations to the library was a volume of the " Botany 

 of California," to which the Vice-President called particular 

 attention. It is now published through the munificence of 

 certain of our citizens, the State Geological Survey having been 

 discontinued, and no money having been appropriated to publish 

 this work. As Judge S. C. Hastings had been mainly instru- 

 mental in obtaining the money by means of which the publication 

 of the work was insured, a vote of thanks to that gentleman 

 was passed by the Academy. 



W. N. Lockington submitted the following: 



Check List of the Decapod and Tetradecapod Crustacea 

 of the West Coast of North America. 



BY W. N. LOCKINGTON. 



The appended list contains 231 species, collected from theTvritings of Dana, 

 Stimpson, S. I. Smith and Hale Streets, with the addition of above forty 

 recently described by Mr. W. G. W. Harford and myself. 



It is not unlikely that other Panaman and Arctic forms may have been 

 described by American and European naturalists, whose works are not acces- 

 sible to me; but I have worked in the belief that a check list was wanted, and 

 that the only way to have one was to avail myself of the materials at hand — 

 in the hope that those who have better materials, or more of them, will either 

 be so good as to slfcid me their additions or corrections, or will publish a 

 fuller and better list. 



Even if this list should prove complete, or nearly so, as regards species 

 hitherto described, it probably does not contain the half of those actually 

 existing on the long line of coast stretching from Panama to the Arctic Ocean. 



Only the more conspicuous species from the coast north of Monterey have 

 hitherto been described, while south of that old city, and extending almost to 

 Panama, lies a vast region which, so far as I am aware, has scarcely been 

 searched at all for Crustacea, though its birds, reptiles, fishes and mollusks 

 have been pretty thoroughly studied. 



