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PEINCIPAL PUBLIC AND PEIVATB 



imERALOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS 



IN CALIFORNIA, 



KNOWN TO THE AUTHOR. 



I.— PUBLIC COLLECTIONS. 



State Geological Collection — Sacramento and San Francisco ; not 

 arranged, and in part destroyed by fire in eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 five, at the Pacific Warehouse. 



State Agricultural Society's — At Sacramento ; partly in cases, but 

 not classified or arrano;ed. 



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San Joaquin Agricultural Society — At Stockton; collected chiefly 

 by Dr. Holden ; not large, nor well arranged. 



California Academy of Natural Sciences — At San Francisco ; not 

 arranged; in boxes, and stored, awaiting a suitable room or building for 

 their display. This collection was made in great part by and tlirough 

 the exertions of Dr. J. G. Trask, and has many valuable specimens taken 

 from our mines soon after their discovery. 



College of California — At Oakland. A collection of minerals and 

 fossils of California ; partly arranged. 



Santa Clara College — (No particulars known.) 



Odd Fellows' Library Association— At San Francisco. A valuable 

 miscellaneous collection of minerals, ores, fossils, and curiosities, chiefly 

 the donation of the members of the Order; arranged in cases, at the 

 Hall. The Order is indebted, chiefly, for this valua'ble addition to their 

 rooms to the zeal and enthusiasm of their President, S. II. Parker, Esq. 



Occidental Hotel — Lewis Leland, San Francisco. A collection con- 

 taining many very choice and valuable specimens of ores and precious 

 metals of the Pacific coast. 



