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tion of a beautiful bronze medal to this Academy, with the inscrip- 

 tion, " Ex haustu Olympico valentior." 



A vote of thanks to the Consul-General was unanimously passed 

 for his agency in establishing a friendly interest towards this 

 Academy in his fellow-countrymen, and a committee appointed to 

 draw up a suitable letter in reply to that of the Royal Academy. 



Dr. Behr read a paper on the extinction of plants in the neighbor- 

 hood of San Francisco by the progress of settlement and the en- 

 croachment of foreign weeds. 



President Blake read a paper on pre-historic man, being an ab- 

 stract of a paper by Carl Vogt, read before the Ethnological So- 

 ciety of Copenhagen last year. 



In discussing the subject of Dr. Blake's paper, Mr. Bloomer read 

 an abstract from the address of President Stokes before the British 

 Association, to prove that man was not the product of gradual pro- 

 gressive development, but of special creation. 



Dr. Gibbons exhibited twenty-seven species of plants, collected 

 recently in flower on the Oakland hills, as an example of the Flora 

 of February in this part of California ; also, a piece of concretionary 

 sandstone from the same hills, much resembling a redwood stump 

 petrified, showing numerous layers like those in wood. 



Prof. Whitney made some remarks upon an interesting memoir 

 by Prof. Sars, on the living crinoids dredged by Prof. W. B. Car- 

 penter and others, at a depth of 4,300 feet, in the North Atlantic, 

 exhibiting a copy of the work. 



Regular Meeting, February 21st, 1870. 

 Vice-President in the Chair. 



Thos. W. Newcomb and A. A. Hazeltine were elected resident 

 members. 



Donations to the Library : The following very valuable works were 

 presented by B. M. Hartshorne : Flora Javse et Rumphia, C. L. 

 Blume, 1828-1836, 7 vols., folio ; the same, new series, Orchidei^, 

 1858, 1 vol., foho ; The Fishes of Malabar, Dr. F. Day, London, 

 1851, 1 vol., 4to.; The British Sea-Anemones and Corals, P. H. 



