78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
through the exertions of D. C. Gilman, President of the Univer- 
sity of California, at whose request the following named gentle- 
men have contributed the necessary funds to put the work in 
stereotype: Leland Stanford, Henry Pierce, R. B. Woodward, 
Lloyd Tevis, D. O. Mills, J. C. Flood, John O. Earl, Wm. Nor- 
ris and Chas. McLaughlin. These gentlemen are not known to 
be scientists, and do not appear to be actuated by any special or 
personal motive. The California Academy of Sciences, therefore, 
in recognition of their generosity, orders that their names be en- 
rolled upon the records of the Society as benefactors of Science. 
And it is deemed proper that honorable mention should be 
made of Professor Asa Gray, Professor J. D. Whitney, Professor 
Watson and Professor W. H. Brewer, for their personal devotion 
to the work without pecuniary consideration. 
The Secretary was ordered to incorporate the above remarks 
in the minutes. 
Reevrar Meerine, Aprit 51x, 1875. 
Vice-President Edwards in the chair. 
Sixty-five members present. 
Donations to the Cabinet: From Chas. D. Gibbes, bird’s nests 
from San Joaquin County; from Mr. Frink, collection of grasses, 
bark and nuts from Hawaiian Islands; from Professor George 
‘Davidson, a collection of Japanese plants. 
Horatio Stone read a paper on the Unity of Arts. 
Amos Bowman read a paper on Coal Deposits of the Pacific 
Coast. 
Professor Brewer exhibited a map showing the distribution of 
woodlands in the United States. In speaking of the map he 
alluded to the theory of the connection of the existence of for- 
ests with rainfall. In the investigations of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution, no instrumental evidence had been found, in any part 
of the United States, that the destruction of forests had re- 
