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are all executed by one of the members {Dr Kellogg) free of ex- 

 pense to the Academy. 



The following gentlemen have distinguished themselves by their 

 labours in the different branches of natural science which they 

 respectively chiefly affect, viz. : in geology, Professor J. D. Whitney 

 (state geologist. President of the Academy), Messrs Gabb, W. P. 

 Blake, J. E. Clayton, Ashburner, Dr James Blake, and Auguste 

 Remond; in mineralogy, Messrs W. S. Keys, J. Ross Browne, and 

 Dr G. E. Moore; in botany, Messrs H. N. Bolander, Brewer, 

 Bloomer, and Dr Albert Kellogg; in zoology (general), Dr J. G. 

 Cooper, Eugene V. Lorquin; in conchology, Mr W. J. W. Harford, 

 Dr Newcomb, and R. E. C. Steams; in icthyology, Dr W. O. Ayres; 

 in zoophylology, Mr Gabb; in infusoria, Dr James Blake; in 

 entomology, Dr H. Behr (lepidoptera); in magnetism. Col. Ransom; 

 and in seismology, Dr J. B. Trask; all gentlemen willing to 

 exchange observations or specimens with those in other countries. 



The body is out of debt, perhaps for the all-sufficient reason 

 that the credit of science has hitherto been rather weak in 

 San Francisco. The State Geological Survey, under the efficient 

 direction of Professor Whitney, is still pursuing its operations, 

 though under many obstacles and difficulties incidental to the 

 troubles about the annual grants from a practical-minded legisla- 

 ture. They have already published two volumes, and others will be 

 forthcoming as soon as the necessary funds are in hand. The 

 gardens of Mr Woodward, and the very excellent museum in the 

 " What Cheer House," ought not to be passed without notice. 

 I believe that the German Society of Naturalists in San Francisco 

 does not now exist. 



In various other parts of California are scattered a few naturalists, 

 of whom we may mention Mr Andrew Taylor of Santa Barbara, an 

 ethnologist well known in Europe, who is preparing a large work on 

 the ethnology of California, on which subject he has already pub- 

 lished a series of articles in the California Farmer some years 

 ago, and Mr John Buttle, an Englishman, formerly of the Royal 

 Engineers, and assistant to Dr Lyall, botanist of the North-West 

 Boundary Commission, and also one of my most valued lieutenants 

 in the Vancouver Exploration, a portion of which he afterwards 

 carried on himself He has now established himself as a land- 

 surveyor at San Jose, fifty miles south of San Francisco, and is 

 prepared to make collections of plants, seeds, &c., in any part of 

 California. Dr Thomas Logan of Sacramento, is a zealous 



