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Charles Wolcott Brooks, of the Nominating Committee, read 
a statement giving their reasons for having nominated certain of 
those upon the ticket presented. . 
On motion, the report of the Committee was adopted and the 
Committee discharged. 
Mr. Scupham, of the Committee appointed on the question of 
the continuance of the State Geological Survey, reported a Me- 
morial to be transmitted to the State Legislature, asking them to 
revive the Survey. The Memorial was as follows: 
MEMORIAL. 
To the Honorable, the Senate and Assembly of the State of California: 
The California Academy of Sciences would respectfully represent that the 
Geological Survey is a work of great practical importance, as well as scientific 
and educational value, to the people of this State. 
That by the action of the Legislature of 1873-74, the accumulated and un- 
published material of several years’ work was placed for safe keeping in the 
custody of the Regents of the University, where, for want of further provis- 
ion, the greater portion still lies unimproved. 
That there have been already published four volumes of the geological re- 
ports, viz.: one of geology, two of paleontology, and one ot ornithology, be- 
sides smaller pamphlets, and several topographical maps, the beauty, accu- 
racy and value of which are appreciated and acknowledged by all who have 
carefully examined them. 
That of the unpublished matter already accumulated, there is the material 
for a segond volume of geology, for a volume of botany, nearly ready to be 
issued, and the greater portion of the material for a second volume of orni- 
thology devoted to the aquatic birds. 
That the map of Central California is so nearly Aciehed that the active field 
work of one more season would complete it, This map embraces nearly one- 
half the area of the State, and extending from Lassen’s Peak on the north, to 
Visalia on the south; includes all the more important mining districts within 
the limits of California. The work so far done upon it is unexceptionable, 
and when completed, it will possess the highest practical value, will meet 
with a ready sale, and be the most important contribution to the geography 
of this coast that has ever been made. 
That a general geological map of the whole State has been partially drawn 
and colored, and could be finished and published in such a way as to show 
the extent of the present knowledge of the geology of the State (subject, of 
course, to such improvements in detail as may hereafter be developed by fu- 
ture work) at no great expense. 
That the U. S. Coast Survey map of the peninsula of San Francisco has 
been geologically colored in great detail, and only waits the means for its 
publication. 
