PROCEEDINGS. 359 



B. C. Winstoti, Monterey, Cal. : 1 Didelphys vlrginiana, juv., 2 monkeys 

 and 1 Australian rat in flesh. 



R. E. Wood, Eutherford, Cal.: 1 specimen in flesh of Regulus sairapa 

 olivaceus. 



R. A. A. Wright, San Francisco: specimen Hippocampus hudsonins. 



Henry G. Wulf, San Francisco, 4 specimens Placuanomia sp.? 



Purchased: 7 specimens mammals in flesh. 



February 2, 1891. — Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Additions to Library: 



From correspondents 141 



By purchase 19 



By donation 6 



Dr. C. M. Kichter, of the committee to draft resolutions on the death of 

 Dr. Ferrer, presented the following report : 



"It is with deep sorrow that we are called upon to chronicle the death 

 of one of our most distinguished members, Dr. Henry Ferrer. He was one 

 of the foremost standard bearers of science on the Pacific Coast. He had 

 not only attained a position of great eminence in his profession, a world- 

 wide reputation in his specialty; he was not only the most skillful master 

 in microscopy, inferior to no one in its technique and application, but he 

 was a warm promoter of science generally, one whose devotion to science 

 will ever be gratefully remembered by the members of this Academy." 



Your committee therefore recommend the following resolution: 



Resolved, That the foregoing memorial of the late Dr. Henry Ferrer, 

 member of the California Academy of Sciences, be placed in full on the 

 minutes as a token of the estimation in which he was held by this 

 Academy, and a copy thereof be forwarded to his widow and family. 



A committee consisting of Charles A. Keeler, Walter E. Bryant, and 

 J. R. Scupham, was appointed to memorialize the Legislature to take some 

 steps to prevent the spread of the English Sparrow. 



March 2, 1891.— Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



F. C. von Petersdorff, was elected a resident member. 



Donations to the museum were reported from L. Belding, Eobt. A. A. 

 Wright, Walter E. Bryant, M. Braverman, B. C. Winston, Geo. W. Dunn 

 and Melville Attwood. 



