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elation for the Advancement of Science, and Affiliated Societies, 

 at Leland Stanford Junior University, April 5 to 7, 1917. The 

 attendance of members of the Academy and the number who 

 presented papers were very gratifying and creditable to the 

 Academy, as evidence of the fact that the Academy is taking 

 an active and important part in the scientific activities of the 

 Pacific Coast. Among the members of the Academy who par- 

 ticipated in the Stanford meeting were the following : Dr. John 

 Caspar Branner, Prof. A. L. Barrows, Dr. Douglas H. Camp- 

 bell, Dr. W. W. Campbell, Dr. Bruce L. Clark, Prof. Geo. A. 

 Clark, Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, 

 Mr. C. E. Grunsky, Dr. Harvey M. Hall, Dr. Charles A. 

 Kofoid, Mr. W. S. W. Kew, Dr. G. C. Gester, Dr. F. B. Sum- 

 ner, Dr. J. Rollin Slonaker, Dr. James Perrin Smith, Dr. 

 Chester Stock, Dr. Wm. A. Setchell, Dr. George C. Peirce, 

 Prof. Bailey Willis, Prof. Charles E. Weaver, Mr. Clarence A. 

 Waring, Prof. John O. Snyder, Dr. William E. Ritter, and 

 probably others. 



On the evening of April 7, a dinner was given under the 

 auspices of the Academy at the Sutter Hotel in San Francisco 

 to the members of the Association. The attendance was good 

 and the occasion proved a very pleasant one. 



The membership of the Academy has also been active during 

 the year in war work, many members being members of various 

 committees of the Pacific Coast Research Conference, through 

 which they are assisting the State Council for Defense in all 

 possible ways. 



PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF 



The members of the Museum staff have been active in re- 

 search and scientific investigation. Their contributions to 

 scientific literature have been very creditable both in number 

 and quality, as evidenced by the following list of titles : 



Dickerson, Roy E. 



1. The Fauna of a medial Tertiary Formation and the associated 

 Horizons of Northeastern Mexico. (Senior author with WilHam 

 S. W. Kew.) 



Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Fourth Sen, Vol. VI. No. 5, pp. 125-156, pis. 

 17-26 a, July 30, 1917. 



