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as well as to all who have assisted us, our hearty thanks are most 

 cheerfully offered. 



The various papers which have been presented to the Academy 

 have been of more than common interest, and will add very 

 much to the value of our printed records. Among them I may 

 be excused from mentioning two by our President, on the 

 "Abrasion of the Coast of Japan," and " Probable cause of the 

 low temperature at great depths of the Ocean.'' Mr. C. W. 

 Brooks has given us precious information in his essays upon "Ja- 

 panese works in American waters," and the " Commerce of Pre- 

 historic races," while upon more special topics, we have had in- 

 teresting papers from Dr. Kellogg, on the " Species of Eucalyp- 

 tus," and on "Loco poison;" from Dr. Jos. Le Conte, on the 

 " Ancient Glaciers of the Sierras;" from Mr. Amos Bowman, on 

 the "Coal deposits of California;" from Dr. Cooper, on the "Land 

 shells of the Coast;" from Mr. Lockington, on " Various species 

 of Crustacea;" and from Drs. Blake and Behr, " Observations on 

 the Phylloxera." Other matters have also been brought to your 

 attention, to which it is hardly necessary for me to allude, as 

 they will soon be before you in a published form, rendering the 

 next volume of our Proceedings, in point of interest, nothing 

 behind its predecessors. 



The "Botany of California," the result of the labors of the 

 Geological survey, will soon, through the public spirit of a few 

 generous men, be given to the world, and it would be unbecom- 

 ing in me if I did not here publicly express to Messrs. Leland 

 Stanford, Lloyd Tevis, J. C. Flood, R. B. Woodward, Henry 

 Pierce, D. O. Mills, Jno. O. Earl, Wm. Norris, andC. McLaugh- 

 lin, the debt which all lovers of science owe to them for their 

 noble munificence. Nor should our obligations to the scientific 

 men who have had charge of the enterprise, and to whose knowl- 

 edge of the subject we are so much indebted, be ever forgotten. 

 Professors Asa Gray, J. D. Whitney, Watson and Brewer, have 

 each and all devoted much time and labor to the work, and will 

 always be entitled to the gratitude, not only of the members of 

 this Academy, but of the future generations of scientists who 

 may investigate the beautiful study of which they are such dis- 

 tinguished teachers. To Professor Gilman, also, whose absence 

 is his gain, but our loss, we must render our thanks for the en- 



*To Judge S. C. Hastings the gratitude of the Academy is also due, as it was owing 

 to his exertions that public attention was first called to Uie necessity for this publication. 



