﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
  269 
  

  

  Kinley, 
  William 
  H. 
  Sharp, 
  and 
  Josiah 
  Belden, 
  were 
  elected 
  resi- 
  

   dent 
  members. 
  

  

  Donatious 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  : 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Phalaenidse 
  of 
  California, 
  No. 
  

   2, 
  by 
  A. 
  S. 
  Packard, 
  Jr., 
  M.D., 
  from 
  the 
  author 
  ; 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  

   of 
  Natural 
  Sciences, 
  of 
  Philadelphia 
  : 
  pp. 
  409-424 
  ; 
  Overland 
  Monthly 
  for 
  

   March, 
  1874, 
  from 
  publishers 
  ; 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Institute 
  of 
  Min- 
  

   ing 
  Engineers, 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  May, 
  1871, 
  to 
  February, 
  1873; 
  California 
  Horticultur- 
  

   ist, 
  February, 
  1864, 
  from 
  publishers 
  ; 
  Monathsbericht 
  der 
  Koniglichen 
  Preuss. 
  

   Akad. 
  der 
  Wissenschaften, 
  zu 
  Berlin, 
  November, 
  1873 
  ; 
  Annual 
  Meeting 
  of 
  

   the 
  Am. 
  Geogr. 
  Society, 
  January, 
  1874 
  ; 
  American 
  Chemist, 
  Philadelphia, 
  

   February, 
  1874 
  ; 
  Map 
  of 
  the 
  Sources 
  of 
  Snake 
  River, 
  from 
  the 
  Dept. 
  of 
  In- 
  

   terior 
  ; 
  Engineering 
  and 
  Mining 
  Journal, 
  New 
  York, 
  February 
  14, 
  1874. 
  

  

  By 
  purchase 
  : 
  Popular 
  Science 
  Monthly 
  for 
  March, 
  1874 
  ; 
  Journal 
  of 
  Bot- 
  

   any, 
  London, 
  February, 
  1874 
  ; 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History, 
  Lon- 
  

   don, 
  February, 
  1874 
  ; 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Geographical 
  Society, 
  Lon- 
  

   don, 
  January, 
  1874 
  ; 
  Annalen 
  der 
  Physik 
  and 
  Chemik, 
  No. 
  11, 
  Leipzig, 
  1873. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Davidson 
  announced 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  received 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  

   Alexander 
  Agassiz, 
  offering 
  the 
  Society, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  expressed 
  

   wish 
  of 
  his 
  deceased 
  father, 
  a 
  set 
  of 
  the 
  Flora 
  Braziliensis, 
  which 
  

   work, 
  in 
  thirty-four 
  volumes, 
  was 
  now 
  upon 
  the 
  shelves 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  : 
  From 
  I. 
  W. 
  Raymond, 
  specimens 
  

   comprising 
  walrus 
  teeth, 
  fishing 
  implements, 
  carvings, 
  costumes, 
  

   etc., 
  from 
  Alaska, 
  and 
  spears, 
  war 
  clubs, 
  hunting 
  implements, 
  from 
  

   the 
  South 
  Sea 
  Islands 
  ; 
  from 
  Mrs. 
  Capt. 
  Shelley, 
  samples 
  of 
  Tapa 
  

   or 
  Kapa, 
  a 
  cloth 
  manufactured 
  by 
  natives 
  of 
  the 
  Samoan 
  Islands 
  ; 
  

   also 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  bark 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  made 
  ; 
  from 
  Capt. 
  Oliver 
  

   Eldridge, 
  specimen 
  of 
  Diomedea 
  exulans, 
  and 
  a 
  paroquet, 
  both 
  

   stuffed 
  and 
  mounted 
  ; 
  from 
  Vicente 
  Denis, 
  of 
  the 
  Coast 
  Survey, 
  

   four 
  species 
  of 
  shells, 
  from 
  the 
  kelp 
  off 
  San 
  Miguel 
  Island, 
  in 
  Santa 
  

   Barbara 
  channel 
  ; 
  from 
  W. 
  W. 
  Russel, 
  specimens 
  of 
  Lycopodium 
  

   from 
  Sandwich 
  Islands 
  ; 
  from 
  Alfred 
  Gros, 
  skeletons 
  of 
  male 
  and 
  

   female 
  otter, 
  with 
  numerous 
  shells, 
  sponges, 
  corals, 
  and 
  other 
  spec- 
  

   imens 
  from 
  Alaska 
  ; 
  from 
  Mrs. 
  A. 
  McF. 
  Davis, 
  several 
  curiously 
  

   formed 
  bricks, 
  which 
  have 
  apparently 
  been 
  subjected 
  to 
  the 
  action 
  

   of 
  fire, 
  each 
  bearing 
  strange 
  hieroglyphics 
  ; 
  they 
  were 
  dug 
  up 
  near 
  

   Saucelito. 
  From 
  Judge 
  Ford, 
  of 
  Martinez, 
  through 
  Barry 
  & 
  Pat- 
  

   ten, 
  a 
  fossil 
  tooth 
  of 
  an 
  extinct 
  species 
  of 
  shark 
  (Car 
  char 
  odon). 
  

   It 
  was 
  found 
  imbedded 
  in 
  the 
  rock 
  at 
  Martinez, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  

  

  