PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



PRESIDE NT. 



PROF. J. D. WHITNEY, 



VICE PRESIDENT. 



DR. JAMES BLAKE. 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



H. N. BOLANDER. 



RECORDING SECRETARY. 



THEODORE BRADLEY. 



TREASURER. 



EDWARD BOSQUI. 



LIBRARIAN. 



Dr. a. KELLOGG. 



DIRECTOR OF THE Ml'SEUM. 



R. E. C. STEARNS. 



* Regular Meeting, January 20th, 1868. 



President in the Chair. 



Twenty-three members present. 



A motion was adopted to print five hundred copies of' the new 

 constitution, hst of members, and annual address of the President. 



It was stated by the President that the Council had appoifited 

 the following Curators : 



. General Zoology — Dr. J. G. Cooper. 



'Conchology — AY. G. W. Harford. 



Radiata — Dr. J. B. Trask. 



Entomology — R. H. Stretch. 



G-eology — W. A. Goodyear. 



Botany — H. Bloomer. 



Donations to the Library : " Concentration and Chlorinization of 

 Ores," by G. Kustel. "A History of the Fishes of Mass.," by 

 Dr. D. H. Storer, from the authors. 



A fine photograph of the skull of the Siamese Tiger from Boston. 

 Copies of the second memoir of the Academy were distributed to 

 members. It is an original paper by Baron Richthofen on the 

 Natural System of Volcanic Rocks, comprising ninety-four pages. 



Dr. Cooper presented the^foUowiug paper : 



