1888. ] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 29 
December 3, 1888. 
ReGuLar Business MEETING. 
Vice-President HuBBARD in the chair. 
Forty-nine persons present. 
The report of the Council was presented, and its reeommenda- 
tions adopted as follows: 
1. The payment of certain bills. 
2. The appropriation of $100 for binding periodicals received 
prior to the removal of the Library to its present location. 
3. The election of the following persons as resident members: 
—Mr. BAsHrorD DEANE, of the College of the City of New 
York; Pror. Ropert W. HALt, of the New York University; 
and as corresponding member, Pror. Henry A. Warp, of 
Rochester, N. Y. 
The Corresponding Secretary, Dr. A. A. JULIEN, read letters 
of acknowledgment of election as honorary members, from Pro- 
fessor RoswELL P. Fiower, of the British Museum, and Baron 
FERDINAND VON MueE usr, of Melbourne, Australia. Also, 
The Librarian, Dr. Britron, announced the receipt of a 
series of publications, comprising five volumes of miscellaneous 
botanical papers, issued at different times by BARON VON 
MUELLER, as a gift to the Academy’s Library, and also, through 
his agency, fourteen ‘‘decades”’ of McCoy’s Prodromus of the 
Zodlogy of Victoria. 
Dr. James J. Friepricn exhibited a series of specimens of 
silicified woods from California, and remarked upon them ag 
follows: 
I wish to present a few specimens of petrified wood from 
California. Petrified wood is found almost all over the State; 
but there are a few counties where it is met with in such abun- 
dance, that it is acommon occurrence in the floats and in the beds 
and washouts of rivers and creeks; such is the case in Napa and 
Sonoma Cos. In Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., are some very active 
collectors, and among their collections specimens of petrified 
wood form animportantpart. Still, the specimens from Sonoma 
Co.—between Santa Rosa and Petaluma—show nothing remark- 
able; but the abundance of silicified objects, such as pine-nuts, 
