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Regular Meeting, July 17th, 1876. 

 •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, Hyla, sp., Eutcenia sirtalis, 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 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: 



Remarks on the Crustacea of the Pacific Coast of North 

 America, including - a Catalogue of the Species in the 

 Museum of the California Academy of Sciences, San 

 Francisco. 



BY W. N. lOCKIN'GTON. 



The collection of Crustacea belonging to this institution is tolerably com- 

 plete as regards the species inhabiting the Pacific Coast from Cape St. Lucas 

 northwards, and also includes many forms from Oceania and the Indo-Pacific, 

 but is deficient in Atlantic, African and Australian forms. 



The Pacific Island specimens are, for the most part, the gift of Andrew 

 Garrett; while those from this coast, to which these remarks are confined, 

 have been presented chiefly by W. J. Fisher, Hy. Hemphill, Hy. Edwards 

 and W. G. W. Harford. 



MAIOIDEA. 



The want of a good scientific library on this coast is severely felt by any 

 one who attempts to describe a new species, and I have never felt it more 

 acutely than when endeavoring to marshal in their proper places the numer- 

 ous novelties belonging to this group of Crustacea that have been brought 

 from the Gulf of California by Mr. W. J. Fisher. 



Pkoc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. VII.— 5. 



