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The losses by death were : 



Davis, Mr. Horace Life Member July 12, 1916 



Gutzkow, Mr. Frederick Life Member May 7, 1916 



Leszynsky, Mr. S. L Member March 8, 1916 



Sclater, Dr. Philip Lutley Honorary Member , 1916 



Trask, Mrs. Blanche Life Member Nov. 11, 1916 



The Academy carries on its list of patrons the following 



names : 



Alvord. William Bourn, William B. 



Crocker, Charles Crocker, William H. 



Hendrie, John W. Dunne, Peter F. 



Lick, James Grant, Joseph D. 



Hosmer, Mrs. Charlotte Morrison, Alexander F. 



Of these the last six are the surviving members. Two other 

 public spirited citizens, Mr. Herbert Fleishhacker and Mr. A 

 King Macomber, have recently very generously ofifered to in- 

 stal large habitat groups in the Museum, whereby they will be- 

 come patrons. 



LECTURES 



During the year 1916, 11 free lectures have been delivered at 

 the stated meetings of the Academy, as follows : 



January 19. "Bird and Animal Life of the Yosemite Region." 



Tracy I. Storer, Assistant Curator of Birds, Museum 

 of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California. 



March 15. "The Gulls in and about San Francisco." 

 Joseph MaiUiard. 



April 19. "Bird Life as seen through a Camera." 



Dr. J. Rollin Slonaker, Professor of Physiology, 

 Stanford University. 



May 17. "The Relation of our Salmon and Trout to Forest Con- 



servation." 



N. B. Scofield, Expert in charge of the Department 

 of Commercial Fisheries, California State Fish and 

 Game Commission. 



June 21. "Game Conditions in Great Britain vs. Conditions in Cali- 



fornia." 



Carl Westerfeld, California Fish and Game Commis- 

 sioner. 



July 19. "Horticultural Quarantine." 



Frederick Maskew, Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer 

 of the California State Horticultural Commission. 



August 16. "A Naturalist in the Bahama Islands." 



Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, Director of the Los An- 

 geles Zoological Park and Aquarium. 



September 20. "The Fur Seals and other animals of the Pribilof Islands." 

 George A. Clark, Academic Secretary of Stanford 

 University. 



October 18. "The Physiographic History of the Southern Sierra and 



Mojave Desert Regions." 



Dr. John P. Buwalda, Instructor in Geography, Uni- 

 versity of California. 



