﻿academy 
  of 
  sciences. 
  14:5 
  

  

  Regular 
  Meeting, 
  Monday, 
  August 
  18th, 
  1873. 
  

   President 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Twenty-six 
  members 
  present. 
  

  

  Charles 
  Stephens, 
  E. 
  D. 
  Farrington, 
  Frederick 
  Gutzkow, 
  Lewis 
  

   Locke, 
  J. 
  H. 
  Locke, 
  Charles 
  L. 
  Weller, 
  and 
  Edward 
  W. 
  Corbett 
  

   were 
  elected 
  resident 
  members, 
  and 
  Leland 
  Stanford 
  and 
  Irving 
  

   M. 
  Scott, 
  hfe 
  members. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  Library 
  : 
  Nature, 
  Vols. 
  I 
  and 
  II, 
  from 
  R. 
  E, 
  C. 
  

   Stearns. 
  D'Orbigny's 
  Dictionnaire 
  Universel 
  d'Histoire 
  Naturelle, 
  

   text, 
  13 
  vols., 
  atlas, 
  3 
  vols., 
  hf. 
  mor. 
  (by 
  purchase). 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  : 
  Ferns, 
  collected 
  by 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  Bu- 
  

   chanan 
  in 
  Natal, 
  South 
  Africa, 
  presented 
  by 
  H. 
  N. 
  Bolander. 
  

   Specimen 
  of 
  Tunny 
  ? 
  caught 
  in 
  San 
  Francisco 
  Bay, 
  from 
  S. 
  

   R. 
  Throckmorton. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  Pavonaria 
  ( 
  Verrillia 
  Blakei, 
  

   Stearns) 
  from 
  Burrard's 
  Inlet, 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Georgia, 
  presented 
  by 
  J. 
  

   S. 
  Lawson, 
  U. 
  S. 
  C. 
  S. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  remarked 
  that 
  the 
  Academy 
  had 
  obtained 
  the 
  

   skin 
  and 
  skeleton 
  of 
  a 
  Sea 
  Elephant 
  from 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Lower 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia, 
  which 
  made 
  a 
  valuable 
  addition 
  to 
  our 
  collection. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Stearns 
  called 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  to 
  the 
  hand- 
  

   some 
  and 
  appropriate 
  black 
  walnut 
  case 
  for 
  the 
  crystal 
  models, 
  

   which 
  had 
  been 
  devised 
  and 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Academy 
  by 
  their 
  

   fellow-member 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  B. 
  Stout, 
  who 
  also 
  had 
  been 
  to 
  the 
  trouble 
  

   and 
  expense 
  of 
  having 
  the 
  models 
  repaired 
  and 
  whitened. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  also 
  called 
  attention 
  to 
  several 
  specimens 
  of 
  birds 
  

   belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Academy, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  mounted 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  

   G. 
  Blunt. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Davidson 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  : 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Auriferous 
  Gravel 
  Deposits 
  of 
  California. 
  

  

  BY 
  GEORGE 
  DAVIDSON. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  regular 
  stated 
  meeting 
  of 
  February 
  3rd, 
  our 
  fellow-member 
  Dr. 
  Wil- 
  

   ley 
  called 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  auriferous 
  gravel 
  deposits 
  of 
  Placer 
  County, 
  to 
  doubt 
  

  

  Proc. 
  Cal. 
  Acad. 
  Sci., 
  Vol. 
  V.— 
  10. 
  Oct., 
  1873. 
  

  

  