60 PROCEEDINGS OP THE CALIFORNIA 



Donations to the Cabinet : Ten species of shells from Cape Clas- 

 set, W. T., not before in the museum, by Dr. Cooper. 



Donations to the Library: Catalogue of Alaskan Antiquities, 

 etc., collected by Capt. Fast, pam., 8vo. ; Circular of Amer. As- 

 soc. Adv. of Science for 1869 ; First Annual Report of Peabody 

 Acad, of Science, Salem, Mass., 1869, pam., 8vo. ; Catal. of rare 

 Conchol. works for sale by E. J. Nolan, Philad., 1869. 

 I A discussion was held on the smok}^ appearance of the air usual 

 at this dry season, in consequence of fires in the woods along the 

 whole coast northward. 



Regular Meeting, September 6th, 1869. 

 President in the Chair. 



Donations to the Cabinet : Specimens of clay and wood from an 

 artesian well in Santa Clara, 288 feet beneath the surface, by Dr. 

 A. W. Saxe. Shells from the west coast of Mexico, by Capt. C- 

 M. Scammon. The jaw of a beaver from a stream in the Sierra 

 Nevada, by Mr. Plummer through Dr. Cooper. Fhnt pebbles from 

 White Pine District. Jaws of a shark supposed to be about 21 

 feet long, from Mazatlan ; a dried Hippocampus, a Fistularia, and 

 a EiiryaU from Gulf of California, by Dr. Willard through Dr. 

 Ayres. The fifth naolar tooth of a mastodon from Murphy's, Cala- 

 veras County. 



Donations to the Library : Catalogue of books published by Hurd 

 & Houghton, Cambridge, Mass. ; Vick's illustrated Floral Guide 

 for 1869, pam. 8vo. ; Anniv. Address to the Roy. Geog. Soc. of 

 London, May, 1869, and Proceedings of same, Vol. XII, No. 3, 

 July, 1869. 



With the specimens of wood above mentioned, a diagram was 

 also presented, showing the different strata of mud, sand, etc., 

 passed through in boring the same well to the depth of 328 feet. 

 A discussion followed with regard to these deposits and the man- 

 ner in which the fibre of the wood presented had been so perfectly 

 preserved, wood found at such depths being usually carbonized. 



