176 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



Regular Meeting, June 19th, 1871. 

 President in the Chair. 



H, B. Janes and Charles E. Parker were elected resident 

 members. 



A. D. Hodges, Jr., was elected Recording Secretary. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Professor Davidson presented a col- 

 lection of plants from Alaska, in the vicinity of Sitka Soimd, col- 

 lected by Rev. J. 0. Raynor, Chaplain of the United States Army. 



Donations to the Library : Washington Astronomical and Me- 

 teorological Observations (for 1868); "Transactions of the Albany 

 Institute" (sixth volume); "Fifty-third Annual Report of the Trus- 

 tees of the New York State Library;" "Bulletin of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College" (Volume 2, No. 5); 

 "American Journal of Fine Arts" (June); "Proceedings and Com- 

 munications of the Essex Institute," and various other pamphlets. 



A communication was received from the authorities of the Odd 

 Fellows' Library, tendering to the members of the Academy the 

 freedom of the Library. A vote of thanks was returned, with the 

 corresponding privilege of the freedom of the Academy rooms to 

 the officers of the Library. 



Dr. Gibbons presented a plant which had been gathered from 

 near Half Moon Bay, and which grew along the coast in that vicin- 

 ity. It was of fibrous structure, and had been utilized by the peo- 

 ple along the coast in making ropes. It was found near the edge 

 of the ocean, in the barren sands. Where one of these plants 

 grows, a cone of sand accumulates around it. 



Mr. Bloomer thought it was the Franseria Chamissonis. 



Dr. Cooper presented an ear of Indian corn, which he said was 

 a curiosity. It was well known that the male and female flowers 

 were usually separate, and so rare was it that they were inter- 

 mingled on the same stem, that a prominent botanist lately asked 

 the question through the American Naturalist, if such a thing had 

 ever been seen. This was a case in which it existed in the ear. 



Dr. Blake presented two specimens of algce, Avhich he had found 

 growing in a boiling spring in Pueblo Valley, Nevada, 100 miles 



