360 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Addjtions to Library: 



From correspondents 123 



By purchase 15 



By donation 2 



Dr. H. H. Behr read a paper on Botanical Kemiuiscences. 



Walter E. Bryant read a paper entitled, A Provisional List of the Land 

 Mamals of California. 



The secretary read an account of the discovery of precious opals near 

 Moscow, State of Washington, and exhibited specimens in the matrix, 

 presented by Melville Attwood. 



The following communication was read: 



San Francisco, March 2, 1891. 

 To the Officers and Members of the Calif ornia Academy of Sciences: 



I hereby present to this Academy my collection of Fungi, now in this 

 building, in the gathering and identification of which I have devoted the 

 major portion of my time during the past fifteen years. The collection 

 consists of between 10,000 and 11,000 numbers, which are catalogued by 

 the card system, nearly 13,000 separate cards having been required for the 

 work. 



The catalogue has been arranged for immediate use and the specimens 

 are already in convenient receptacles. 



Yours respectfully, 



H. W. HAKKNESS. 



A vote of thanks was unanimously tendered to Dr. Harkness for his 

 valuable gift. 



May 4, 1891.— Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



David S. Jordan, Charles H. Gilbert, Oliver P. Jenkins, Douglas H. 

 Campbell, John C. Branner, Joseph Swain, George M. Kichardson, Charles 

 D. Marx, Horace B. Gale and Fernando Sanford, were proposed for mem- 

 bership. 



Donations to the museum were reported from Frank H. Vaslit, B. C. 

 Winston, Walter E. Bryant, J. H. Barr, G. P. Eixford, Dr. H. H. Behr, 

 Robert Moses, H. S. Nichols, William A. Bobbins and L. Belding. 



Additions to Library: 



From correspondents 322 



By purchase 33 



By donation 18 



G. P. Rixford read a paper on Indian carvings at Swansea, Inyo County, 

 and presented a series of photographs of the carvings. 



