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Mr. Hastings remarked the fear created in some communities by 

 Plantamour's predicted collision Between a comet and the earth. 



Dr. Gibbons mentioned the remarkable coolness of the tempera- 

 ture which prevailed here during the month of September last, 

 which had not been equalled in this latitude for twenty-one years. 



Regular Meeting, October 21st, 1872. 

 President in the Chair. 



Twenty-six members present. 



Rev. Horatio Stebbins, J. 11. Weeden, William Doolan, W. J. 

 Miller, John Perry, Jr., J. M. McDonald, W. H. Sears, W. H. 

 Foster, Jr., William LeiEngwell, Andrew McF. Davis, E. G. De 

 Crano, B. F. Ellis, Henry P. Bowie, John Curry, Henry M. Fiske, 

 M.D., William Lane Booker, William Calvert, M.D., Jasper M. 

 McDonald, G. S. Johnson, William B. Thornberg, and Louis T. 

 Haggin, were elected resident members. 



Edward F. Hall, Jr., and William Burling, were elected life 

 members, and M. W. Saunders and H. J. Stewart, corresponding 

 members. 



Donations to the Museum : Head of a white-tailed deer, with 

 antlers abnormally developed, by J. P. Walton. Specimen of a 

 fern, a new species of Botrt/cJiium, from Emigrant Gap, by Mr. 

 Dunn. Specimen of a fossil from San Pedro ^Beatrice .^), by Geo. 

 Davidson. 



In connection with the deer's head presented to the Academy 

 this evening, it is stated in a note accompanying the gift, " that it 

 is the head and horns .of a white-tailed deer, killed in the coast 

 range of mountains, fifteen miles west of Tulare Lake ; it was shot 

 by Mr. John S. Walton, who says that it is the only specimen of a 

 white-tailed deer that he has seen among a thousand shot by him ; 

 it weighed, when dressed, 175 pounds." 



