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  proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  california 
  

  

  Regular 
  Meeting, 
  August 
  3d, 
  1874. 
  

  

  President 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  On 
  ballot, 
  the 
  following 
  resident 
  members 
  were 
  elected 
  : 
  Hon. 
  

   Cornelius 
  Cole, 
  Prof. 
  T. 
  Guerin, 
  James 
  Faulkner, 
  and 
  Carl 
  I. 
  

   Schneider. 
  

  

  The 
  following, 
  purchased 
  for 
  the 
  museum 
  by 
  Capt. 
  C. 
  M. 
  Scam- 
  

   mon, 
  were 
  submitted. 
  Baleen 
  of 
  the 
  sulphur 
  bottom 
  whale 
  (^Sieholii- 
  

   us 
  sulphureus 
  of 
  Cope) 
  taken 
  at 
  Santa 
  Cruz 
  ; 
  Baleen 
  of 
  Bowhead 
  

   (^Balcena 
  Sieholdii 
  of 
  Linnaeus). 
  Baleen 
  of 
  Right 
  whale 
  (^Ba- 
  

   Icena 
  Sieholdii 
  of 
  Gray). 
  Baleen 
  of 
  California 
  gray 
  whale 
  {Ra- 
  

   chianectes 
  glauca 
  of 
  Cope). 
  Earbone 
  of 
  a 
  right 
  whale, 
  taken 
  on 
  

   coast 
  of 
  Alaska 
  in 
  1873. 
  Earbone 
  of 
  the 
  Orca 
  or 
  Killer,"a 
  ceta- 
  

   cean 
  of 
  the 
  dolphin 
  family. 
  Skull 
  of 
  a 
  dolphin, 
  with 
  several 
  

   vertebral 
  plates, 
  taken 
  off 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  California, 
  .Oct. 
  29th, 
  1873. 
  

   Skull 
  of 
  porpoise 
  (^Lagenorhjnchus 
  obliquidens 
  of 
  Gill). 
  Skull 
  of 
  

   porpoise, 
  name 
  undetermined. 
  Skull 
  of 
  Bay 
  porpoise 
  (^Phocoena 
  

   vomarina 
  of 
  Gill), 
  the 
  least 
  in 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  entire 
  whale 
  tribe 
  in- 
  

   habiting 
  the 
  Pacific 
  North 
  American 
  Coast. 
  Jaw 
  of 
  a 
  white- 
  

   headed 
  or 
  mottled 
  grampus 
  ( 
  Gramjms 
  Stearnsii 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Ball) 
  . 
  

   Bunch 
  of 
  warts 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Baloena 
  Sieholdii. 
  These 
  

   warts 
  are 
  called 
  by 
  the 
  sailors 
  '• 
  rose 
  buds." 
  Piece 
  of 
  the 
  right 
  

   ■whale's 
  " 
  bonnet 
  " 
  (Balcena 
  Sieholdii') 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  Northwest- 
  

   ern 
  Coast. 
  Two 
  specimens 
  of 
  walrus 
  hide. 
  Fifteen 
  jars 
  of 
  alco- 
  

   hohc 
  specimens 
  of 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  cetaceans, 
  with 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  para- 
  

   sites 
  peculiar 
  to 
  them 
  ; 
  and 
  also 
  specimens 
  of 
  crustaceans, 
  used 
  as 
  

   food 
  by 
  the 
  whales. 
  Henry 
  Edwards 
  presented 
  specimen 
  of 
  Myria- 
  

   pod, 
  from 
  the 
  Hawaiian 
  Islands, 
  and 
  a 
  fresh 
  water 
  crustacean 
  from 
  

   the 
  Dalles, 
  Oregon. 
  Mr. 
  McHenry 
  presented 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  wood 
  

   covered 
  with 
  moss, 
  from 
  King 
  County, 
  W. 
  T. 
  Mr. 
  Lorquin 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  Bucephala 
  alhiola, 
  or 
  butter 
  ball 
  duck, 
  and 
  Querquedula 
  cyan- 
  

   optera, 
  or 
  blue-winged 
  teal. 
  J. 
  R. 
  Scupham 
  presented 
  small 
  shells 
  

   collected 
  on 
  the 
  Promontory 
  Mountains, 
  Utah. 
  Mr. 
  Gruber 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  about 
  twenty 
  specimens 
  of 
  birds. 
  

  

  