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January i6, iSgj. President Harkness in the chair. 



Additions to the museum were reported from Charles AUison, W. 

 G. Blunt, Chase Littlejohn, Charles Fuchs. 



Mr. W. L. Watts read a paper on the Geological Economics of 

 the Central Valley of California. 



California Botanical Club. November 2j, i8g2. Mr. J. M. 

 Hutchings in the chair. 



The following were elected to membership: Samuel H. Hammond, 

 Sidney S. Peixotto, Mrs. A. E. Bush, L. C. Cummins, Miss Mary 

 C. Day, Prof John Dickinson. 



Dr. Gustav Eisen read a paper on the figs of Sonora and Lower 

 California. 



California Zoological Club. December lo^ i8g2. Vice Pres- 

 ident Walter E. Bryant in the chair. 



The following were elected to membership: Wm. F. Greany, Dr. 

 H. N. Miner; Fred A. Seavey, W. P. Steinbeck, Aurelius Todd, 

 Prof C. H. Tyler Townsend, F. S. Plimptom, Dr. Clark, J. Burnham, 

 Overend G. Rose, Mrs. E. S. Alexander. 



Mr. Walter E. Bryant read a paper on the zoology of Baja Cali- 

 fornia. 



Mr. Charles A. Keeler called attention to some of the peculiarities 

 of the fauna of Lower California as illustrating certain laws of evolu- 

 tion. 



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MISCELLANY. 



THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COLLECTIONS OF THE EXPEDITION 



TO BAJA CALIFORNIA. 



The California Academy of Sciences of San Francisco has at vari- 

 ous times, during the last five or six years, sent small expeditions 

 to the peninsula of Baja California, for the purpose of exploring and 

 collecting natural history specimens of the higher as well as of the 

 lower classes. Various parts of that hitherto little-known country 

 have been visited during the different expeditions, and much ipaterial 

 has been brought together for future study. The result has been that 

 the fauna of Baja California is becoming better known, presenting 

 many features of great interest. The flora of this country has been 

 already minutely described by T. S. Brandegee, who has added a 



