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•coleopterological portion of it. He is also making a collection 

 to illustrate the different orders of insects, and has done a very 

 great amount of work on this series. Many of the specimens in 

 the collection are types of species described from Lower Cali- 

 fornia, and these are treated with extreme care. Every specimen 

 is carefully mounted, and with every specimen is associated a 

 number which refers to all the details known of the specimen, 

 where it was collected, when, by whom determined, and whatever 

 facts of interest may be connected with it. The labels of the 

 various specialists who have had the insects are most carefully 

 preserved and placed on the pin with the insect itself. In this 

 way it seems hardly possible that any mistake could occur as to 

 the type of any of the species recently described from Lower 

 Californian collections. Prof Smith mentioned certain other 

 collections, and spoke in high terms of the beautiful collecting 

 grounds in the immediate vicinity of San Francisco. 



During the evening Prof Smith handed the members a bottle 

 of beetles, also a number of Polyphylla crinita Lee. from Ala- 

 meda County, California, which were kindly donated by Mr. 

 Fuchs. 



Dr. Griffith exhibited three boxes of material collected by Mr. 

 Johnson and himself recently on their tour from Washington, 

 D. C. , to Popes Creek on the Potomac, stating that the Cole- 

 optera were taken by himself, while the Diptera represented Mr. 

 Johnson's collecting; he further said that this represented a geo- 

 graphical distribution of the localities visited. 



Dr. Skinner spoke of his recent trip to the mountains of east 

 Tennessee and western North Carolina. Owing to the altitude, 

 the fauna really represented that of Canada, the only representa- 

 tive of the fauna of the South of any importance being Argyn- 

 nis diana, which he had the pleasure of taking. Cychnis were 

 diligently searched for, but none found ; this may have been on 

 account of being too late in the season for them (August 14 to 

 September 4.) 



It was moved by Mr. Wenzel, seconded by Mr. A. Hoyer 

 and carried, that the Social extend a hearty vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Carl Fuchs for his donations to the members. Further, 

 after listening to the statement made by Prof. Smith, the Social 

 was unanimously of the opinion that the work done by Mr. 

 Fuchs in the California Academy of Science is of the highest 



