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avocation of the genuine student of truth as the grandest and sublimest 

 occupation of the human mind. In perusing his book the reader by 

 degrees becomes almost as enthusiastic as the writer was, and feels in 

 every part of his sensitive system the verity of what the philosopher set 

 forth. 



The glories of conquest and empire, the pride of kings, presidents and 

 politicians, the glamour of family and wealth all pass away. They are 

 vanities. They are nothing. But what the scholar accomplishes endures 

 and advances the race in the path of civilization and culture. In these 

 days, quite as certainly as a hundred years ago, there is no greater man 

 than the scholar, and among the scholars of California, no one, perhaps, 

 made a nearer approach to the character contemplated by the philosopher 

 than our late honored member. Professor John Le Conte. 



THEODOKE H. HITTEL, 

 JOHN F. HOUGHTON. 



July 6, 1891.— Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Donations to the Museum were reported from L. Belding, W. S. Bliss, 

 Walter E. Bryant, Miss Alice Eastwood, W. J. Golcher and K. C. McGregor. 



Additions to Library: 



From correspondents 100 



By purchase 21 



By donation 8 



The President announced the death of Henry Edwards, Chas. Stephens, 

 E. J. de Santa Marina, members. 



Dr. David Wooster read a paper on Stone Heaps in Arizona. 



Dr. H. H. Behr read a paper on a New Kemedy for Snake Bites, 



August 3, 1891. — Stated Meeting. 



T. H. Hittell in the chair. 



Edward Ehrhorn was proposed for membership. 



Specimens of coal and coke from the Tacoma Colliery, Wilkeson Coal 

 Field, Washington, were presented by Mellville Attwood, and a paper by 

 him on the subject was read. 



Dr. Gustav Eisen read a paper on the introduction of Blasiophaga psenes 

 into California, giving a complete description of the caprification of the 



