58 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



regard to the tule lands of California, and the reclamation of them 

 for agricultural purposes. 



Regular Meeting, July 19th, 1869. 

 Vice President in the Chair. 



Fifteen memhers present. 



David Hughes, Samuel A. L. Brannan, W. W. Dodge, and Dr. 

 W. H. Titcomb were elected resident members. 



Mr. P. T. Van Orden, of Treasure Citj, White Pine, sent to 

 the Society a singular specimen of carboniferous limestone, which 

 abounds in that locality. The specimen consists of two layers of 

 rock, one having depressions of the size of a buckshot at regular 

 intervals over the entire surface, and the other having correspond- 

 ing protuberances. Considerable discussion was excited as to the 

 peculiar formation of the rock. Dr. Cooper thought it was fossil- 

 ized hailstones, or in other words that hailstones had fallen on a 

 body of sand, making deep impressions ; that sand had blown 

 into these after melting, and in that condition the mass had be- 

 come solidified. Others thought that the strange character of the 

 stone was owing to a bunch of berries, or a quantity of seed, hav- 

 ing been petrified. 



Mr. Plummer of San Antonio, sent to the Society a section of a 

 Puget Sound pine log, in the center of which was found a leaden 

 ounce ball. The log was first used as a pile in one of the wharves 

 in this city. It was removed to make room for the city wall, and 

 taken to San Antonio, where it was again driven as a pile. In 

 sawing off the top of the log the ball was sawed in two. The rings 

 in the body of the log showed that it was 110 years old. All 

 traces of the course taken by the bullet were obliterated. The 

 log was about two feet in diameter at the point where the ball was 

 found. It must have been shot into the tree when it was very young, 

 and as that country was first explored only 65 years since, the ball 

 must have been fired by a hunter long before the time of Lewis & 

 Clark's journey, or even Vancouver's voyage, unless the annual 

 rings were deceptive. 



Mr. R. W. Raymond, United States Mining Commissioner, was 



