Karl C. Weber, Ford A. Carpenter, David R. Brearley and Arthur 

 D. Houghton, M.D., all of Los Angeles were eleeted members of the 

 Academy, Mr. Brearley subscribing for a Life Membeiship to be paid in 

 instalments. 



The Board received a Report of a meeting held on June 6, 1912, by 

 certain gentlemen fur the purpose of organizing an Entomological Sec- 

 tion of this Academv and praying to be recognized and accepted as such; 

 but inasmuch as only three of the gentlemen, identified with said move- 

 ment, are members 'of this Academy, the -request was refused. 



The President appointed the following Committees, to-wit: 



Publication 

 Collins, Davidson, Benton. 



Finance. 

 Keese, Alliot, Baumgardt. 

 Program 

 Knight, Parsons, Watts. 

 The circumstances connected with the 'work of mounting the Brea 

 Raneho fossils, and the conditions under which they were deposited in 

 the County Museum Building, were presented to the Board by the Sec- 

 retary, who in his remarks emphatically announced that, in his opinion, 

 this Board of Directors would fail in its duties, and they would be held 

 responsible for the great loss to the Academy, if they failed to assert the 

 title in this Academy, as owners of said fossils, and he exhibited the 



draft of the following < imunication and moved that our Representatives 



be instructed to present the same to the Hoard of Governors of the 

 Museum and ask that it be made a matter of record in their proceedings, 



to-wit : 



Los Angeles, duly 3, 1912. 



To the Doai'd of Governors of the Los Angeles County Museum of 

 Ilistorv, Science and Art: You are hereby notified that all of the fossils 

 excavated from ha Brea Raneho, which are now in the Museum Building 

 :,i Exposition Park, are the property of the Southern California Academy 

 of Sciences, and that this Academy claims to be. and is the solo and ex- 

 clusive owner of said fossils: 



That said fossils were excavated under the direction of this Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, which paid all the expenses thereof, from its individual 

 Treasury, amounting to over $2,000, under a concession to it by Mrs. 

 Erskine M. Ross. 



In signing the Contract with the Historical Society of Southern 

 California, The Fine Arts League, The Southern Division of the Cooper 

 Ornithological Club, and the County of Dos Angeles, this Academy of 

 Sciences did, in no respect, relinquish its title to said fossils, and it has 

 at no time consented to any proposition relating to the waiving of its 

 title to said fossils. 



It is not the intention, at this time, to remove said fossils from said 

 Museum, or to take them from the supervision of your Board of Gov- 

 ernors, but we make this statement, that you may understand our claims 

 in the' premises, and we ask that this communication be incorporated in 

 the record of the meeting at which it shall be presented to yon, so that in 

 the future, — perhaps a very distant future,— there may lie no misunder- 

 standing, should this Academy of Science demand possession of said fos 

 sils for the purpose of depositing the same in its own Building. 



The Board of Directors of the Southern California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, at a meeting held on July 3, 1912, ordered this Communication to 

 be presented to you by its Representatives upon your Hoard with the re- 

 quest that it be made a matter of record in your proceedings. 



An extended discussion ensued, and while if was the unanimous 

 expression of opinion that some measures should be adopted to obtain a 

 permanent record of the ownership of said fossils by this Academy, by 

 consent of the mover, action upon said motion was deferred, and the mat- 



