334 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



January 7, 1890. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The annual reports of the officers and Board of Trustees 

 were received and referred to the Publication Committee. 



The judges and inspectors of election reported the follow- 

 ing officers elected for the ensuing year : 



H. W. Harkness, President. 



H. H. Behr, First Vice-President. 



George Hewston, Second Vice-President. 



Frederick Gutzkow, Corresponding Secretary. 



J. R. ScuPHAM, Recording Secretary. 



I. E. Thayer, Treasurer. 



Carlos -Troyer, Librarian. 



J. G. Cooper, Director of 3Iuseum 



Trustees. 



Charles F. Crocker, E. J. Molera, 



D. E. Hayes, George C. Perkins, 



S. W. HoLLADAY, Irving M. Scott, 



John Taylor. 



REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 



In accordance with the custom which is pursued by this 

 and kindred societies, we meet this evening to receive the 

 reports of our officers during the past year and to cast a 

 retrospective glance upon its history, the pages of which 

 are about to be closed. 



As you have learned by the reports which have been read 

 this evening, much good work has been accomplished dur- 

 ing the year, and we enter upon another with renewed con- 

 fidence. 



There are upon the roll of membership the names of two 

 hundred and fifty-seven members. Five have joined during 



