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Resolve'l, That the Trustees of the California Acuflemy of Sciences be re- 

 quested, at their earliest convenience, to forward a petition to the Legislature, 

 through the San Francisco delegation, praying for the continuance of the State 

 Geological Survey as at present conducted. 



Regular Meeting, March 4th, 1872. 

 Dr. Kelloscr in the Chair. 



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Seventeen members present. 



Donations to the Library: Am. NaturaUst, Jan. and Feb., 1872. 

 Am. Chemist, Jan. and Feb., 1872. Eleventh An. Rep. of Dept. 

 Pub. Instruction, State of Kansas, 1871. Am. Jour, of Science 

 and Art, Jan. and Feb., 1872. Am. Jour, of Microscopy, Jan. 

 1872. Monatsbericht der KonigUch Preussischen Akad. der 

 Wissenschaften, Berhn, Sept. and Oct., 1871. Report of the 

 Geolog. Survey of New Hampshire, 1871. Bulletin Essex Inst., 

 Aug., Sept. and Oct., 1871. Eng. and Mining Jour. Descrip- 

 tion of some ncAv or little known species of Oaks, from North-west 

 America, by Robert Brown. 



Donations to the Museum : Specimen of Jasper, from a large 

 vein of the same, near Murphy's Camp, Calaveras County, and a 

 specimen of Tourmaline, presented by H. G. Hanks. ' 



A letter announcing the death of M. Sebastian Rene LeNor- 

 mand, of Lenaudiere, France, a corresponding member of the 

 Academy, was read by the Secretary, and on motion, Mr. S. C. 

 Hastings and Dr. Stout were appointed a Committee to prepare 

 and transmit a suitable memorial in reply to the communication. 



Communications were read from the President, and from 

 Rear-Admiral Sands, of the U. S. Navy, suggesting the adoption 

 of appropriate resolutions and a memorial to Congress by the 

 Academy, relative to an appropriation of a sufficient amount of the 

 public moneys for the purpose of making observations of the transit 

 of Venus across the sun, in 1874. The Secretary stated that 

 immediate action in connection with Congressional appropriations 

 required a reply from the Trustees prior to a regular meeting of 



