18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



the Legislature of the Geological Survey. The resolution was 

 adopted after a brief discussion by a unanimous vote. A very 

 strong feeling was manifested in favor of the survey, and of the 

 retention of Prof. Whitney at its head, as necessary for the mate- 

 rial interests, the culture, and the good name of the State, no less 

 than for the general interests of science. The following gentlemen 

 were appointed a committee under the resolution : Gregory Yale, 

 R. E. C. Stearns, Dr. A. B. Stout, Dr. H. Gibbons, and John 

 A. Veatch. 



Regular Meeting, March 16th, 1868. . 



President Whitney in the Chair. 



The committee appointed at the last meeting presented the fol- 

 lowing resolutions, which were adopted : 



Resolved, As the sense of the members of the Academy, that the State 

 Geological vSurvey should be continued and completed, as an imperative neces- 

 sity demanded by the material interests of the State, and by the cause of edu- 

 cation and science, and as a just exposition of the sentiments of the people of 

 the State. 



Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of the committee be signed by 

 them, and by the presiding officer and secretary of the meeting of the second 

 instant, and forwarded to the delegation of the City and County of San Fran- 

 cisco, to be presented to the Legislature for its action. 



Gregory Tale, Robt. E. C. Stkakns. 



H. Gibbons, John A. Veatch, 



Arthur B. Stout, Committee. 



Leander Ransom, President pro tern. 

 Theodore Bradley, Rec. Secretary. 



The President read a communication from J. W. Foster, of Chi- 

 cago, giving an interesting account of a stone implement received 

 there recently from California. The material is syenite, very much 

 like the Quincy granite, symmetrical in shape, not quite circular on 

 the cross section, ground and polished so as to exhibit in mai'ked 

 contrast the pure white of the feldspar and the deep green or black 

 of the hornblende. The blunt end is pierced with a hole, whose 

 outer edges are rimmed out, so that it looks very much like a plum- 

 met. It was found in digging a well, thirty feet below the surface, 



