PROCEKDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



California Academy of Sciences. February 6, iSg-^. 

 President Harkness in the chair. 



Additions to the museum were reported from N. A. Freeman, 

 G. C. Duncan, J. Anderson, John Hemsley, H. N. Cook, J. Z. 

 Davis, Rev. F. H. Wales, C. P. Nettleton, J. H. Cluff, James E. 

 Fowler, T. K. Couperus. 



The Librarian reported 225 additions to the library. 



Mr. W. E. Watts read a paper on " Natural Gas in the San 

 Joaquin Valley." 



Mr. W. S. Chapman called attention to the fact that a bill had 

 been introduced in Congress to contract the limits of the Yosemite 

 Park Reservation, and moved that a committee be appointed to 

 prepare resolutions requesting the Senators and Members of Con- 

 gress from this State to use their utmost endeavors to preserve 

 the present limits of the Reservation. Messrs. Chapman, Eisen, 

 Hittell, and McDonald were appointed. 



Dr. Eisen read a paper on " The Preservation of Game in the 

 Sierra Nevada." 



March 6, /8gj. President Harkness in the chair. 



Additions to the museum were reported from W. H. Shockley, 

 Mrs. E. E. G. Steele, W. E. Watts, Miss Anna Hewston, J. M. 

 Hahn, C. E- Manning, D. T. Hughes, Captain Praetz, Charles 

 A. Keeler. 



The Librarian reported 234 additions to the library. 



A vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. D. T. Hughes for his 

 valuable donation of a collection of butterflies from Columbia. 



Mr. George H. Ashley read a paper on "An Illustration of 

 the Flexure of Rock." 



Dr. H. H. Behr read a paper on " The Relations Between But- 

 terflies and Plants." 



Mr. Walter E. Bryant read a paper descriptive of new mam- 

 mals from Lower California, with exhibition of specimens. 



April ^, i8g^. President Harkness in the chair. 



Dr. J. C Branner, Prof. J. P. Smith, Mr. Marsden Manson, 

 and Prof. W. R. Dudley, were elected to resident membership. 



