564 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



March 2, 1S96. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Eitter in the chair. 



E. L. Grossman was proposed for membership. 



Donations to the Museum were reported from George A. Stabler, Will- 

 iam Brewster, J. S. Cooper, G. W. Stewart, and J. B. Warren. 



Additions to the Herbarium were reported from the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture collections in Alaska, from Baron F. von Mueller, Alvak 

 Eaton, and F. W. Koch; also 425 specimens collected by C. G. Pringle in 

 Mexico in 1894, purchased by the Curator and the Botanical Club. 



Additions to the Library: 



From correspondents 135 



By purchase 46 



By donation 14 



Notice was given that the following communication had been presented 

 to the Council and received the sanction of that body: — 



" To the President of the Council of the California Academy of Sciences : 



" Sir — The undersigned have united to form a section of this Academy 

 to be called ' Section of Exact and Applied Sciences, ' for the purpose of 

 creating an interest in those branches of Science amongst the members of 

 our Institution. 



" The undersigned respectfully ask the approval of the Council of the 

 Academy to form said section, and that due notification thereof shall be 

 made to the Academy, in conformity with the prescriptions of its By-Laws. 



[Signed] " George Davidson, 

 " E. J. Molera. 

 "H. C. Behr, 

 " Hermann Kower, 

 " Joseph Le Conte, 

 ' ' Marsden Manson, 

 " Thomas Price, 

 "Louis A. Garnett, 

 "Edward S. Holden." 



It was announced from the chair that all the requirements of the Reso- 

 lution referring to Sections having been fulfilled, the " Section of Exact 

 and Applied Sciences " was recognized as being duly formed. 



Dr. M. J. Rosenau delivered a lecture on "Bacteria and the Dairy." 



Dr. Thomas D. Wood delivered a lecture on "Tuberculosis and the 

 Milk Supply." 



