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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  Regular 
  Meeting, 
  October 
  5th, 
  1874. 
  

   Vice 
  President 
  in 
  the 
  Chair. 
  

  

  Forty-seven 
  members 
  present. 
  

  

  H. 
  F. 
  Teschemacher, 
  a 
  resident 
  member, 
  was 
  enrolled 
  as 
  a 
  life 
  

   member, 
  having 
  paid 
  the 
  required 
  fee. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Museum 
  : 
  William 
  J. 
  Fisher 
  presejated 
  a 
  Collec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  Japanese 
  Specimens, 
  including 
  two 
  pair 
  of 
  shoes 
  and 
  a 
  hat 
  ; 
  

   a 
  sample 
  book 
  containing 
  several 
  hundred 
  specimens 
  of 
  fabrics, 
  a 
  

   water-proof 
  coat 
  manufactured 
  of 
  paper, 
  sponges, 
  etc. 
  W. 
  G. 
  W. 
  

   Harford 
  presented 
  thirteen 
  species 
  of 
  Crustaceans 
  from 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  

   Santa 
  Rosa. 
  W. 
  J. 
  Fisher 
  presented 
  twenty-three 
  species 
  of 
  Crus- 
  

   taceans 
  from 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands 
  and 
  Japan. 
  J. 
  L. 
  Bray 
  present- 
  

   ed 
  several 
  specimens 
  of 
  Iron 
  Ore 
  from 
  the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  Coos 
  

   County, 
  Oregon 
  ; 
  two 
  bottles 
  of 
  Gold-bearing 
  Sand, 
  from 
  the 
  ocean 
  

   beach 
  of 
  same 
  county, 
  and 
  a 
  bottle 
  of 
  Platinum, 
  found 
  in 
  black 
  

   sand 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  beach. 
  Dr. 
  Kellogg 
  presented 
  a 
  very 
  extensive 
  

   collection 
  of 
  Plants. 
  Mr. 
  Hoffman 
  presented 
  the 
  Map 
  of 
  California, 
  

   issued 
  by 
  the 
  State 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  Dr. 
  Cooper 
  presented 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  a 
  fungoid 
  growth 
  with 
  the 
  following 
  remarks 
  : 
  A 
  fire 
  pass- 
  

   ing 
  through 
  a 
  grove 
  of 
  willows 
  scorched 
  many 
  without 
  killing 
  them. 
  

   On 
  the 
  bark 
  of 
  these 
  the 
  sap 
  afterwards 
  exuded 
  of 
  a 
  deep 
  red 
  color, 
  

   and 
  dried 
  where 
  exposed 
  to 
  the 
  sun 
  in 
  transparent 
  drops, 
  resembling 
  

   cherry 
  gum 
  but 
  not 
  gummy, 
  bitter 
  like 
  salicine, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  beauti- 
  

   ful 
  blood-red 
  color. 
  Where 
  kept 
  moist 
  by 
  the 
  dews 
  and 
  fogs, 
  this 
  

   sap-like 
  exudation 
  soon 
  began 
  to 
  vegetate 
  into 
  an 
  orange-red 
  fun- 
  

   gus, 
  which 
  grew 
  about 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  inches 
  long, 
  covering 
  the 
  bark 
  

   which 
  had 
  become 
  dead 
  with 
  a 
  mossy 
  growth. 
  Though 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  

   supposed, 
  according 
  to 
  scientific 
  belief, 
  that 
  the 
  spores 
  of 
  this 
  lichen 
  

   or 
  fungus 
  merely 
  found 
  a 
  suitable 
  place 
  to 
  grow 
  in 
  the 
  scorched 
  

   sap, 
  it 
  looked 
  very 
  much 
  like 
  a 
  case 
  of 
  " 
  spontaneous 
  generation 
  " 
  

   of 
  fungus 
  from 
  the 
  sap 
  itself. 
  

  

  Donations 
  to 
  the 
  Library 
  : 
  Popular 
  Science 
  Monthly, 
  September, 
  

   1874. 
  Nature. 
  Annales 
  Physik 
  und 
  Chemie. 
  Ordinance 
  Mem 
  

  

  