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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  TEE 
  CALIFOENIA 
  

  

  Vice 
  President 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  Forty 
  members 
  present. 
  

  

  James 
  Whartenby 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  life 
  member, 
  and 
  Edwin 
  Merri- 
  

   field, 
  John 
  H. 
  Bostwick, 
  G. 
  W. 
  Dunn, 
  Benjamin 
  Roop, 
  and 
  Lovell 
  

   Squire, 
  resident 
  members. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  : 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Missouri, 
  one 
  volume, 
  

   1872, 
  and 
  atlas 
  ; 
  one 
  volume 
  of 
  Eeports 
  on 
  the 
  same, 
  1855-1871, 
  presented 
  by 
  

   G. 
  0. 
  Broadhead 
  ; 
  System 
  of 
  Entomology, 
  a 
  continuation 
  of 
  Buffon's 
  Natural 
  

   History, 
  by 
  Gustav 
  Jablonsky, 
  Berlin, 
  1783; 
  presented 
  by 
  James 
  Behrena 
  ^ 
  

   Engineering 
  and 
  Mining 
  Journal. 
  New 
  York, 
  1874, 
  Vol. 
  XVII, 
  Nos. 
  8, 
  9, 
  and 
  

   10 
  ; 
  Societie 
  Entomologique 
  de 
  Belgique, 
  No. 
  95 
  ; 
  Nature, 
  Vol. 
  IX, 
  Nos. 
  

   224 
  and 
  225 
  ; 
  Quarterly 
  Journal 
  Geological 
  Society 
  of 
  London, 
  Vol. 
  XXX, 
  

   Part 
  1st, 
  1874; 
  Astronomical 
  Register, 
  London, 
  February, 
  1874; 
  Eeport 
  of 
  

   the 
  Chief 
  of 
  Ordnance, 
  8vo., 
  Washington, 
  1873 
  ; 
  Annalen 
  der 
  Physik 
  und 
  

   Ohemie, 
  Leipzig, 
  No. 
  12, 
  1873 
  ; 
  American 
  Naturalist, 
  March, 
  1874 
  ; 
  American 
  

   Journal 
  of 
  Sciences 
  and 
  Arts, 
  March, 
  1874; 
  Proceedings 
  Philadelphia 
  Acad- 
  

   emy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences, 
  1873, 
  pp. 
  425-470 
  ; 
  Verhandlungen 
  der 
  Gesellschaft 
  

   fiir 
  Erdkunde, 
  Berlin, 
  1874, 
  No. 
  1. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  : 
  From 
  W. 
  J. 
  Fisher, 
  skull 
  of 
  an 
  

   Orca^ 
  or 
  killer-whale, 
  from 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Ocean 
  ; 
  from 
  W. 
  H. 
  Dall, 
  

   ear-bone 
  of 
  Megaptera 
  versaUUs 
  Cope, 
  skull 
  of 
  Lagenorhynchus 
  

   oUiquidens 
  Gill, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  California 
  Gray 
  Whale, 
  Rhachiamctes 
  

   glaucus 
  Cope, 
  all 
  from 
  Monterey, 
  California. 
  The 
  cranium 
  last 
  

   mentioned 
  is 
  about 
  eight 
  feet 
  long, 
  and 
  (with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  one 
  

   collected 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time, 
  and 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  

   at 
  Washington) 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  bone 
  of 
  this 
  gigantic 
  and 
  formerly 
  

   abundant 
  animal, 
  in 
  any 
  museum 
  in 
  the 
  world. 
  Mr. 
  Dall 
  also 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  a 
  very 
  old 
  prehistoric 
  Aleutian 
  cranium 
  from 
  the 
  Amaknak 
  

   Cave, 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  exploration 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  these 
  Proceedings 
  ; 
  from 
  Jas. 
  E. 
  Perkins, 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  

   Octopus 
  ; 
  basalt 
  from 
  Olompali 
  Rancho, 
  Marin 
  County, 
  California, 
  

   from 
  W. 
  A. 
  Goodyear 
  ; 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Behr, 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  salamander^ 
  

   Batraclioceps 
  attenuatus 
  Bon.; 
  five 
  species 
  of 
  birds 
  from 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  

   Gruber: 
  Melospiza 
  fallax, 
  Paroaria 
  dominica, 
  Calypte 
  anna^ 
  Si~ 
  

   alia 
  mexicana, 
  and 
  Agelaius 
  guhernator. 
  

  

  