216 PROCEEDINGS OP THE CALIFORNIA 



Dr. Henry Gibbons read a translation from a recent medical 

 journal, The Oriental and Medical G-azette, published in Constan- 

 tinople, by the Imperial iSociety of Medicine, which contained an 

 article on the mounds of Asia, Africa and Europe, by Dr. Ab-dul- 

 lah Bey, in which the writer advanced the idea of the common 

 origin of the mounds of said countries with those of this continent. 

 Many of the mounds referred to by the writer contained arrow- 

 heads and shells belonging to species not common on the old con- 

 tinent at the present time ; hence, he deduced from these facts the 

 common origin of the mounds of both hemispheres, and that they 

 are to be attributed to the same race of people. 



Dr. Kellogg remarked upon the subject of the similarity of the 

 types of men, and expressed the opinion that it would eventually be 

 admitted that these relics found in different parts of the world were 

 the products of the same race. 



Kegular Meeting, March 18th, 1872. 

 Vice-President in the Chair. 



Twenty-three members present. 



H. H. Bigelow and W. M. Hughes were elected resident mem- 

 bers, and Charles F. Davis, of Lima, Peru, a corresponding mem- 

 ber. 



Donations to the Museum : Six specimens of silver ores from the 

 Tintic District and vicinity, Utah Territory, from Sam'l. Purdy, 

 Esq., through Mr. C. D. Gibbes. 



Dr. Blake read the following in reference to a branch of the great 

 Japanese warm stream : 



In the " Alaska Coast Pilot " Mr. Davidson has announced that the result of 

 his own observations and of his studies of the different available authorities, has 

 led him to the conclusion that a branch of the great Japanese warm stream 

 was deflected from the northern edge of the main stream as it approached the 

 coast of North America, westward of Queen Charlotte's Island, and thence 

 swept along the coast of Alaska, following the general direction of the coast to 

 the north-westward, westward, and finally to the south-westward, after leaving 



