634 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The following papers were read by title: 



Description of a New Eibbon Fish from San Francisco. By David 

 Starr Jordan and Charles H. Gilbert. 



Description of a Little Known Agonoid Fish. By Frank Cramer. 



Description of a New Wood-Rat from the Coast Range of Central Cali- 

 fornia. By W. W. Price. 



Formicidas of Lower California. By Theo. Pergande. 



Dr. O. P. Jenkins read a i^aper on the Origin of the Senses. 



May 17, 1894.— Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Prof. E. E. Barnard delivered a lecture, on Comets and Meteors, illus- 

 trated with stereopticon views. 



June 4, 1894. — Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Donations to the museum were reported from George W. Lahnsen, A. 

 Spiering, B. G. Reeder, Wm. Miller, S. W. HoUaday, Warren Sosa and 

 W. M. Wood. 



Donations of plants were reported from Canadian Geological Survey, 

 Gray Herbarium, Agricultural College of New Mexico, Missouri Botani- 

 cal Garden, Royal Herbarium of Munich, Germany, and C. V. Piper. 



Additions to Library: 



From correspondents 1 98 



Bj' purchase 23 



By donation 43 



The thanks of the Academy were voted to Mr. Charles Wilkens for his 

 donation to the Library of "Le Journal des Scavans," Tomes i-xxi, 1665- 

 1694, and reprints of two charts of America, 1527, 1529. 



Charles A. Keeler read a paper on the Beautiful in Nature as Interpreted 

 by Science. 



June 18, 1894. — Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



A vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Frederic Mayer for a set of framed 

 photographs of Siamese scenery and people. 



The Committee on Forest Reservations presented the following report, 

 ■which was adopted: 



