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The following propositions for membership were submitted: 

 S. Lubeck, life member; T. Bechtinger, resident member. 

 Donations to the Museum: Prof. Geo. Davidson presented the 

 following: Rye from the Russian shores of the Baltic, plant and 

 seed from Japan, cherry and apricot stones from Rome and Naples, 

 Lupine seeds from Pompeii, Persian violet, cotton ball from 

 Elephanta, Bombay, seed from India, Casxtarina Equisiti folia 

 (India), tree seed from Bombay, tobacco from the Nile, seed, 

 orange seeds from Joppa, corn from the Nile (fourteen parcels 

 in' all), shell money, cyprcea monela (India), seven parcels of 

 insects from India, Egypt and Italy, wheat from the valley of the 

 Nile. From Henry Hemphill, the following Crustacea: Cancer 

 antennarius , three specimens; G. productus, one; Xantho spini- 

 luberculatics (n. s.), one; X. novemdentatus (n. s.), one; Xan- 

 thodes latimanus (n. s.), one; X. leucomanus (n. s.), five; X Hemp- 

 hilliana (n. s.), one; Speocarciiuis, Califomiensis (n. s.); Eandalia 

 ornata ; Lupa bellicosa; Acanthus spino-hirsulus (n. s.); Der- 

 maturus Mandtii; Microrhynchus Hemphillii (n. s.); Inachus tuber- 

 culatus (n. s.); Fabia subquadrala, two; Pugettia Richii; Pisoides 

 tumidus (n. s ); Pseudosquilla marmorala (n. s.), one; Alpheus 

 equidactylus (n. s.), one; A. bellimanus (n. s.), two; Hi[ypolyte 

 palpator, one; H. cristata, one; H. Hemphillii (n. s.), one; Idotcea 

 rectilinea (n. s.), one; Lambrus frons-acutis (n. s.); Scyra acuti- 

 frons; Crangon nigromaculatus (n. s.), two; Gallianassa longi- 

 mana. From Henry Edwards, Panulirus interruptus, Idotcea 

 resecata, Hippolyte lineata, Acalephw, Amblystoma, Sceloporus, 

 Gasterosteus, Ghiropsis guttalus, Orchestia TrasKiana, Livoneca 

 vulgaris. From Mr. Curtis, through C. M. Kinne, Osiracion, sp? 

 From the California Pioneers, one hundred and fifty speci- 

 mens of ores and minerals. From Henry Edwards, precious 

 garnet in mica slate. From W. N. Lockington, Sillimanite. 

 From J. F. Jerome, minerals and ores. From Gov. S. Purdy, 

 silver ore. From Holmes and Dawson, specimens of marble. 

 From Prof. Davidson, leucite (white garnet). Ivory and palm 

 nuts from the California Pioneers. 



W. N. Lockington read the following description of twenty 

 new species of Crustacea from California: 



