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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  Certain 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  in 
  all 
  the 
  treeless 
  regions 
  of 
  California 
  anrl 
  Oregon, 
  that 
  

   have 
  not 
  been 
  touched 
  by 
  the 
  plow, 
  the 
  same 
  phenomenon 
  may 
  be 
  observed, 
  to 
  a 
  

   less 
  extent. 
  In 
  California 
  they 
  are 
  called 
  " 
  hog-wallows." 
  The 
  hog-wallows 
  of 
  

   California 
  may 
  be 
  traced 
  by 
  insensible 
  gradations 
  into 
  the 
  larger 
  mounds 
  of 
  

   Eastern 
  Oregon, 
  and 
  these, 
  in 
  their 
  turn, 
  into 
  the 
  more 
  perfect 
  mounds 
  of 
  

   Mound 
  Prairie 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  all 
  evidently 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  cause. 
  If 
  the 
  mounds 
  

   of 
  Mound 
  Prairie 
  were 
  a 
  unique 
  phenomenon, 
  we 
  might 
  resort 
  to 
  exceptional 
  

   causes 
  ; 
  but 
  a 
  phenomenon 
  so 
  wide-spread 
  must 
  be 
  due 
  to 
  a 
  wide-spread 
  agent. 
  

  

  Special 
  Meeting, 
  Monday, 
  December 
  22d, 
  1873, 
  

  

  AT 
  MERCANTILE 
  LIBRARY 
  HALL. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  stated 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  last 
  regular 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy, 
  this 
  special 
  meeting 
  was 
  called 
  as 
  a 
  tribute 
  to 
  the 
  mem- 
  

   ory 
  of 
  Professor 
  Agassiz 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  programme, 
  as 
  arranged 
  by 
  the 
  

   Committee, 
  will 
  consist 
  of 
  short 
  addresses 
  by 
  its 
  members, 
  Professors 
  

   Gilman 
  and 
  Joseph 
  Le 
  Conte, 
  Rev. 
  Drs. 
  Stebbins 
  and 
  Scott, 
  Mr. 
  

   Stearns 
  and 
  myself. 
  

  

  Remarks 
  of 
  President 
  George 
  Davidson. 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  own 
  handwriting, 
  upon 
  a 
  souvenir 
  of 
  his 
  Pacific 
  Coast 
  visit, 
  is 
  the 
  

   legend 
  '• 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  born 
  May 
  28th, 
  1807." 
  On 
  the 
  14th 
  of 
  December, 
  1873, 
  

   the 
  telegraph 
  flashed 
  to 
  the 
  uttermost 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  earth 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  no 
  more 
  ; 
  

   and 
  we 
  meet 
  to-night 
  to 
  render 
  homage 
  to 
  his 
  memory. 
  

  

  After 
  a 
  few 
  occasional 
  meetings, 
  from 
  my 
  first 
  acquaintance 
  with 
  him 
  twenty- 
  

   seven 
  years 
  since, 
  it 
  happened 
  to 
  my 
  lot 
  last 
  season 
  to 
  introduce 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  Acad- 
  

   emy 
  and 
  its 
  friends, 
  after 
  his 
  voyage 
  of 
  twenty 
  thousand 
  miles, 
  undertaken 
  at 
  a 
  

   time 
  of 
  life 
  when 
  most 
  of 
  us 
  look 
  forward 
  for 
  rest 
  from 
  life-toiling. 
  You 
  saw 
  that 
  

   his 
  old 
  enthusiasm 
  was 
  still 
  ablaze 
  ; 
  you 
  felt 
  the 
  peculiar 
  charm 
  of 
  his 
  presence 
  

   and 
  voice, 
  and 
  were 
  happier 
  and 
  better 
  in 
  knowing 
  that 
  you 
  had 
  come 
  into 
  per- 
  

   sonal 
  relations 
  with 
  one 
  who 
  commanded 
  such 
  influence 
  and 
  power 
  for 
  good. 
  So 
  

   it 
  has 
  been 
  through 
  a 
  busy, 
  earnest 
  life, 
  devoted 
  to 
  but 
  one 
  object 
  ; 
  to 
  see 
  him 
  

   was 
  to 
  love 
  him 
  ; 
  to 
  know 
  him 
  was 
  to 
  willingly 
  promise 
  service 
  to 
  science 
  for 
  

   all 
  time, 
  and 
  to 
  feel 
  amply 
  repaid 
  in 
  fulfilling 
  that 
  promise. 
  

  

  Learned 
  men 
  and 
  statesmen, 
  and 
  educated, 
  brilliant 
  women, 
  had 
  hung 
  on 
  his 
  

   words, 
  and 
  had 
  paid 
  the 
  same 
  tribute: 
  all 
  mourn 
  with 
  the 
  same 
  sorrow. 
  In 
  our 
  

  

  