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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  G. 
  George, 
  of 
  Portersville, 
  Montana, 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Acad- 
  

   emy 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  horns 
  of 
  a 
  Rocky 
  Mountain 
  Goat. 
  It 
  has 
  a 
  

   musk 
  sack 
  behind 
  each 
  horn, 
  and 
  resembles 
  the 
  Thibet 
  Goat, 
  the 
  

   wool 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  so 
  highly 
  prized. 
  Several 
  of 
  the 
  animals 
  have 
  

   been 
  captured 
  alive, 
  and 
  one 
  will 
  shortly 
  be 
  exhibited 
  in 
  this 
  city. 
  

   It 
  is 
  designed 
  to 
  cross 
  the 
  species 
  with 
  the 
  Angora 
  Goat, 
  in 
  ex- 
  

   pectation 
  of 
  producing 
  a 
  valuable 
  hybrid. 
  

  

  Capt. 
  J. 
  H. 
  Mortimer 
  presented 
  marine 
  invertebrates 
  (crustacea 
  

   and 
  salpce) 
  from 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  Ocean. 
  Lat. 
  30° 
  N., 
  and 
  Lon. 
  55° 
  

   W. 
  G. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Blake 
  exhibited 
  the 
  cast 
  of 
  a 
  skull 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  taken 
  out 
  

   from 
  the 
  Ophir 
  mine, 
  on 
  the 
  Comstock 
  Lode, 
  Nevada. 
  The 
  skull 
  

   had 
  been 
  brought 
  up 
  with 
  some 
  dirt 
  from 
  the 
  400-foot 
  level 
  ; 
  but 
  it 
  

   is 
  probable 
  that 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  carried 
  down 
  in 
  dirt 
  from 
  a 
  neighboring 
  

   ravine, 
  which, 
  at 
  an 
  earlier 
  period, 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  to 
  stop 
  some 
  of 
  

   the 
  former 
  workings. 
  But, 
  independently 
  of 
  its 
  history, 
  the 
  skull 
  

   presents 
  some 
  features 
  which 
  render 
  it 
  extremely 
  interesting, 
  from 
  

   an 
  ethnological 
  point 
  of 
  view. 
  The 
  principal 
  of 
  these, 
  were 
  the 
  

   presence 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  interparietal 
  bone, 
  extending 
  almost 
  to 
  the 
  

   occipital 
  protuberance, 
  the 
  heavy 
  superciliary 
  ridges, 
  the 
  very 
  low 
  

   forehead, 
  and 
  great 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  

   skull, 
  the 
  peculiar 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  socket 
  for 
  the 
  articulation 
  of 
  the 
  

   lower 
  jaw, 
  and 
  the 
  great 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  processes 
  for 
  the 
  at- 
  

   tachment 
  of 
  muscles. 
  Unfortunately 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  palatal 
  por- 
  

   tion 
  below 
  the 
  orbits 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  skull 
  were 
  

   ■ 
  missing 
  ; 
  but 
  from 
  what 
  remained, 
  the 
  Doctor 
  considered 
  that 
  it 
  

   presented 
  a 
  form 
  more 
  removed 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  any 
  existing 
  race 
  of 
  

   human 
  beings 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  any 
  skull 
  that 
  had 
  heretofore 
  been 
  

   found. 
  It 
  was 
  submitted 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Blake 
  by 
  Professor 
  Whitney. 
  

   The 
  original 
  skull 
  was 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  thin 
  metallic 
  scale 
  deposited 
  

   by 
  water, 
  and 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  somewhat 
  broken 
  by 
  the 
  pick-axe 
  in 
  

   being 
  excavated. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Blake 
  stated 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  a 
  paper 
  read 
  by 
  him 
  at 
  a 
  former 
  

   meeting, 
  on 
  the 
  " 
  Nickeliferous 
  sands 
  of 
  Frazer 
  River," 
  that 
  hav- 
  

   ing 
  . 
  ascertained 
  from 
  Prof. 
  Wolcott 
  Gibbs, 
  that 
  the 
  mineral 
  he 
  

   obtained 
  from 
  Frazer 
  River 
  sands, 
  and 
  described 
  as 
  magnetic 
  oxide 
  

   of 
  nickel, 
  had 
  never 
  before 
  been 
  discovered, 
  he 
  would 
  propose 
  for 
  

   it 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  " 
  Frazerite." 
  

  

  