558 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



II.— PEIYATE COLLECTIONS. 



W. P. Blake — At San Francisco and Oakland. A collection of mine- 

 rals, ores, geological specimens, and fossils, from California, Nevada, Ari- 

 zona, Idaho, Mexico, the Eastern States, Japan, and China, with some 

 European minerals. About sixty boxes of this collection were destroyed 

 in the Pacific AYarehouse, by fire, in eighteen hundred and sixty-five. A 

 portion, stored at the College and elsewhere, was uninjured. It is now 

 partly. in boxes, and partly in cases, in San Francisco, and at the College 

 of California, Oakland. There are probably five thou.sand to six thou- 

 sand specimens, a great part of them selected by the owner at the locali- 

 ties. It contains a valuable and extensive stiite of crystalline gold. 



Dr. J. M. Frey — Sacramento. A large and valuable miscellaneous col- 

 lection of Pacific coast minerals, including a fine suite of gold in crystals. 

 Arranged in part, in cases, in Sacramento. ' 



Dr. John Hewston, Jr. — San Francisco. Miscellaneous collection. 



Dr. Jones — Murphy's, Calaveras County. A miscellaneous collection, 

 chieflv local. 



A. P. MoLiTOR — San Francisco. Miscellaneous collection. 



E. L. Ogden — San Francisco. A miscellaneous collection of copper 

 and gold ores. A large collection made by this gentleman up to eighteen 

 hundred and sixtj^-one, was purchased by W. P. Blake, in eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty-one. 



Augusts Eemond — San Francisco. (No particulars known.) 



*Dr. Snell — Sonora, Tuolumne County. A rich and valuable collection 

 of fossils and aboriginal relics from the auriferous gravel under Table 

 Mountain, and of minerals and ores from that region. This is the rich- 

 est collection of relics of the mastodon and the mammoth in California. 



T. J. Spear — San Francisco; formerly at Georgetown, in eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-two and three. A small miscellaneous collection, 

 which included an ammonite, from the gold slates of the American Eiver; 

 valuable to science as one of the evidences of the secondary age of the 

 gold bearing rocks of California. 



Dr. Stout — San Francisco. A miscellaneous collection of Eastern and 

 European specimens, arranged in cases. 



C. W. Smith — Grass Yalley, ISTevada County. An interesting collec- 

 tion, arranged in cases, and containing some choice specimens from the 

 mines of Grass Yalley. 



Dr. White — Placerville, El Dorado County. A miscellaneous collec- 

 tion, containing many interesting specimens from that region, and some 

 foreign minerals, b}^ exchange. 



W. E. Waters — Sacramento. Miscellaneous collection of mineral^ and 

 ores, arranged in case. 



