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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  : 
  California 
  Horticulturist 
  for 
  October, 
  

   and 
  Overland 
  Monthly 
  for 
  November, 
  1873, 
  from 
  J. 
  H. 
  Carmany 
  

   & 
  Co. 
  Engineering 
  and 
  Mining 
  Journal, 
  October 
  7th. 
  Nature 
  

   (No. 
  204). 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Library, 
  1872. 
  Twen- 
  

   ty-fourth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum 
  of 
  Nat- 
  

   ural 
  History. 
  Twentieth, 
  Twenty-first 
  and 
  Twenty-second 
  Annual 
  

   Reports 
  of 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  

   on 
  the 
  Condition 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  History. 
  Fifty- 
  

   fifth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Trustees 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  State 
  Library. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  : 
  Specimen 
  of 
  Cloth 
  from 
  a 
  submerged 
  

   wreck, 
  bored 
  by 
  the 
  Teredo, 
  presented 
  by 
  D. 
  J. 
  Staples 
  ; 
  also, 
  a 
  

   similar 
  specimen 
  from 
  Dr. 
  George 
  Hewston. 
  Specimen 
  of 
  Taran- 
  

   tula 
  from 
  . 
  Specimens 
  of 
  pre-historic 
  Stone 
  Implements, 
  

  

  from 
  near 
  Mount 
  Shasta, 
  presented 
  by 
  B. 
  P. 
  Avery. 
  Coal 
  from 
  

   the 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  Coal 
  Co.'s 
  Mine, 
  also 
  a 
  piece 
  from 
  Fort 
  Scott 
  

   Coal 
  mine, 
  Kansas, 
  presented 
  by 
  D. 
  D. 
  Colton. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  

   Octopus 
  ; 
  also 
  of 
  Chimera 
  and 
  other 
  fishes 
  from 
  San 
  Francisco 
  

   Bay, 
  by 
  S. 
  R. 
  Throckmorton. 
  . 
  

  

  Mr. 
  B. 
  P. 
  Avery 
  remarked 
  that 
  the 
  specimens 
  of 
  Stone 
  Imple- 
  

   ments 
  presented 
  by 
  him 
  were 
  from 
  Strawberry 
  Valley, 
  at 
  the 
  

   southern 
  base 
  of 
  Mount 
  Shasta. 
  One, 
  a 
  pestle, 
  made 
  from 
  the 
  

   trachyte 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  bulk 
  of 
  the 
  mountain 
  is 
  composed 
  ; 
  the 
  

   other, 
  a 
  smooth 
  oblong 
  stone 
  used 
  in 
  dressing 
  skins, 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  

   red 
  lava 
  overlying 
  the 
  trachyte, 
  and 
  covering 
  the 
  flanks 
  of 
  the 
  

   mountain. 
  These 
  implements 
  were 
  dug 
  up 
  from 
  a 
  slight 
  depth 
  by 
  

   J. 
  H. 
  Sisson, 
  the 
  Shasta 
  guide, 
  while 
  cutting 
  a 
  ditch. 
  Mortars 
  

   and 
  pestles 
  of 
  trachyte 
  have 
  frequently 
  been 
  found 
  along 
  the 
  

   banks 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  Sacramento 
  ; 
  but 
  no 
  other 
  instance 
  is 
  known 
  

   of 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  lava 
  in 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  Indian 
  implements. 
  Ob- 
  

   sidian, 
  however, 
  is 
  largely 
  employed, 
  or 
  used 
  to 
  be, 
  for 
  arrow- 
  and 
  

   spear-heads. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Davidson 
  delivered 
  a 
  lecture 
  on 
  the 
  discovery 
  and 
  

   progress 
  of 
  Spectrum 
  Analysis 
  ; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Hanks 
  explained 
  the 
  con- 
  

   struction 
  of 
  the 
  Spectroscope, 
  illustrating 
  the 
  remarks 
  of 
  Professor 
  

   Davidson 
  and 
  himself, 
  by 
  numerous 
  experiments. 
  

  

  