that existed in both Upper and Lower California when 

 first known to the Spaniards. 



The speaker then gave a review of the arts of the Cali- 

 fornians and the physical characters and customs of the 

 people, showing that, notwithstanding the absence of 

 pottery, the tribes, when first known, had passed through 

 the several stages of savagery and had reached the lower 

 status of barbarism, as defined by Mr. L. H. Morgan in 

 his "Ethnical periods." 



Mr. Putnam concluded by calling attention to the re- 

 cent explorations of the coast of southern California and 

 the adjacent islands, by the expedition under Lieut. 

 Geo. M. Wheeler of the U. S. Engineers, in charge of 

 the Survey West of the 100th Meridian, and the extended 

 explorations of the Santa Barbara Islands which had been 

 conducted by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology at 

 Cambridge. The results of these explorations, he stated, 

 were now embodied in the seventh volume of the Eeports 

 of the Survey under the charge of Lieut. Wheeler, and 

 published, by authority of Congress, under the direction 

 of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. A. 



Friday, March 11, 1880. 

 Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 



Rev. Robert Collyer, of New York, read an interest- 

 ing paper entitled "An Episode in the life of Edward 

 Fairfax." 



The President, before introducing the lecturer of the 

 evening, briefly alluded to William Fairfax, a lineal de- 



