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Reeutar Meertine, Marcu Ist, 1875. 
Robert E. C. Stearns in the Chair. 
Highteen members present. 
The following names were submitted as candidates for mem- 
bership: Alfred EK. Regensberger, Jas. B. Clifford and Charles 
Frances. 
Donations to the Museum: From Professor Davidson, specimen 
of Mandarin Duck from Nagasaki, Japan. From Mrs. John 
Torrence, specimens of Ostrea titan from San Luis Obispo Co. 
From Captain S. P. Griffin of the Steamship ‘‘ City of Peking,” 
specimens of eyeless eels (genus Petromyzen or Bellostoma?), 
caught coiled around fishing line in seven fathoms of water, mud 
bottom, in Fortesque Bay, Straits of Magellan, November 25, 
1874; also intestinal worms found in the porpoise. Jas. Dean 
presented three Indian pestles made of stone, and nine bone 
bodkins or pins, from a large mound, covering two acres, and, 
twenty-five feet deep, at Visitacion Valley, near San Bruno road; 
also specimens of coals from Queen Charlotte’s Island; also coal 
from Vancouver’s Island, and specimen of bog iron. HE. O. 
McDevitt donated a large and choice assortment of New Zealand 
minerals. From Mrs. J. J Greene, fossil, Tamiosona gigantea, 
from Wild Horse Cafion, eight miles from Lowe’s station. 
The Secretary read a paper by S. B. Christy, as follows: 
Notes on a Meteor seen at Berkeley. 
BY S. B. CHRISTY. 
On the evening of December 9, 1874, as I was sitting in my room, I hap- 
pened to have my attention called to something without, and while looking 
from my window saw, what at first appeared to be the moon in her first quar- 
ter, of about the same size, color and brilliancy, shining through a dim fog, 
which latter was heavy enough to obscure all the lesser stars. As, however, 
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