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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  tice 
  sur 
  Chas. 
  Morren, 
  par 
  Ed. 
  Morren, 
  r2mo. 
  Bruxelles, 
  1860. 
  Rapport 
  

   Seculaire 
  sur 
  les 
  Travaux 
  de 
  Botanique, 
  1772 
  — 
  1872, 
  Bvo., 
  par 
  Ed. 
  Morren. 
  

   L'Horticulture 
  a 
  I'Bxposition 
  Universelle 
  de 
  Paris 
  de 
  1867, 
  par 
  Ed. 
  Morren. 
  

   Bruxelles, 
  1870. 
  Memorial 
  der 
  Naturaliste 
  et 
  au 
  Oultivateur,par 
  Ed. 
  Morren 
  

   et 
  Andre 
  de 
  Vos, 
  8vo., 
  Liege, 
  1872. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  usual 
  exchanges, 
  seven 
  volumes 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Phytologist," 
  a 
  

   standard 
  botanical 
  v?ork, 
  were 
  added, 
  by 
  purchase, 
  to 
  the 
  Library. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Fourgeaud 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  " 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  relations 
  of 
  mat- 
  

   ter 
  and 
  space." 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Fourgeaud 
  also 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  in 
  reply 
  to 
  the 
  exceptions 
  

   taken 
  by 
  members 
  to 
  certain 
  statements 
  made 
  by 
  him 
  in 
  a 
  paper 
  

   read 
  at 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  May 
  4th, 
  1874. 
  

  

  S. 
  C. 
  Hastings 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  " 
  On 
  Electrical 
  Phenomena 
  on 
  this 
  

   Coast." 
  

  

  A 
  member 
  submitted 
  for 
  inspection 
  shells 
  of 
  the 
  Eastern 
  trans- 
  

   planted 
  oyster, 
  which 
  were 
  covered 
  with 
  the 
  spat 
  of 
  young 
  oysters. 
  

   It 
  was 
  a 
  question 
  whether 
  the 
  spat 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  Califor- 
  

   nia 
  oyster 
  or 
  the 
  propagation 
  of 
  the 
  transplanted 
  bivalve, 
  and 
  

   oystermen, 
  whom 
  he 
  had 
  consulted, 
  were 
  unable 
  to 
  determine 
  the 
  

   point. 
  Mr. 
  Throckmorton, 
  State 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Fisheries, 
  stated 
  

   that 
  he 
  had 
  investigated 
  the 
  matter, 
  and 
  found 
  that 
  the 
  spat 
  was 
  

   that 
  of 
  the 
  California 
  oyster. 
  It 
  was 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  shells 
  of 
  East- 
  

   ern 
  oysters 
  only 
  where 
  they 
  had 
  been 
  transplanted 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  

   of 
  native 
  beds. 
  As 
  yet, 
  the 
  Eastern 
  oyster 
  had 
  developed 
  no 
  ten- 
  

   dency 
  to 
  increase 
  in 
  these 
  waters. 
  They 
  were 
  short-lived 
  here, 
  

   becoming 
  very 
  fat, 
  and 
  dying 
  within 
  a 
  year 
  after 
  being 
  placed 
  in 
  

   the 
  bay. 
  The 
  experiment 
  of 
  transplanting 
  Eastern 
  oysters 
  thus 
  

   far 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  failure. 
  

  

  Regular 
  Meeting, 
  June 
  1st, 
  1874. 
  

   Vice-President 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Forty-five 
  members 
  present. 
  

  

  John 
  H. 
  Saunders, 
  G. 
  Parker 
  Cummings, 
  and 
  Wm. 
  Dutch 
  were 
  

   elected 
  resident 
  members. 
  

  

  