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Regular Meeting, February 21, 1876. 



In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Dr. 

 Henry Gibbons was called to the Chair. 



Nineteen members present. 



Chas. F. Dio Hastings was proposed as a life member. 



Donations to Museum: J. G. Lemmon of Sierra Valley pre- 

 sented twenty-five specimens of plants. T. J. Butler, of Arizona, 

 presented a number of minerals. From Henry Edwards specimen 

 of Chiropsis nebidostis. From Mr. Harford, Glypidella Callomar- 

 ginata and parasite worm on Glypltis aspera. Ascidian from Santa 

 Rosa Island, Vermes from Santa Rosa Island, common under 

 stones. From Mr. Baldwin, Lysiosquilla. From Gen. Cobb, 

 Pelecanus eryikrorliynchus. 



On the first of March, 1875, at the regular meeting of the 

 Academy, a box of minerals from Australia was presented by 

 Mr. E. O. McDevitt, through Gen. John Hewston, Jr. Having no 

 place to put them, the box was not opened until recently, and 

 was found to contain forty-eight specimens of minerals, seven 

 teen fossils, six photographs, and a map of the tin fields 

 of Queensland — all of which were exhibited. Eleven of these 

 specimens are gold-bearing, three of lead ores, eight, of cop- 

 per ores, two of cinnabar in quartz associated with blue and 

 green carbonates of copper disseminated through the quartz — 

 these two are handsome specimens; there are none like them in 

 the museum; two of antimony ores, specimens of Herschelite 

 (a variety of Gmelinite), bismutite (a carbonate of bismuth), 

 drift in which diamonds are found; a very interesting series of 

 specimens from the tin fields, comprising tin crystals in quartz, 

 wash dirt in which tin is found, stream tin, pebbles from tin 

 washings, a smoky quartz crystal from the tin washings 

 tourmaline (or schoolsand, being worn grains called by 

 the miners sham tin), titaniferous iron sand (also called 

 sham tin), bed rock of lode tiu with tin crystals, and metallic 



