ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 
Recutar Murine, Jury 17, 1876. 
Vice-President Edwards in the Chair. 
Twenty-five members present. 
Donations to the Museum: From M.D. Hyde, vial of mud 
from soundings made from the ‘ Tuscarora.” From Henry 
Bdwards, //yla, sp., Eutania sirtalis, Allorchestes plumulosus. 
In the donations to the library was a volume of the ‘‘ Botany 
of California,” to which the Vice-President called particular 
attention. It is now published through the munificence of 
certain of our citizens, the State Geological Survey having been 
discontinued, and no money having been appropriated to publish 
this work. As Judge S.C. Hastings had been mainly instru- 
mental in obtaining the money by means of which the publication 
of the work was insured, a vote of thanks to that gentleman 
was passed by the Academy. 
W. ON. Lockington submitted the following: 
Check List of the Decapod and Tetradecapod Crustacea 
of the West Coast of North America. 
BY W. MN. LOCKINGTON. 
The appended list contains 231 species, collected from the writings of Dana, 
Stimpson, $. 7. Smith and Hale Streets, with the addition of above forty 
recently described by Mr. W. G. W. Harford and myself. 
Tt is not unlikely that other Panaman and Arctic forms may have been 
described by American aad European naturalists, whose works are not acces- 
sible to me; but I have worked in the belief that a check list was wanted, and 
that the only way to have one was to avail myself of the materials at hand— 
in the hope that those who have beticr materials, or more of them, will either 
be so good as to send me their additions or corrections, or will publish a 
fuller and better list. 
Kiven if this list should prove complete, or nearly so, as regards species 
hitherto described, it probably docs not contain the half of those actually 
the long line of coast stretching from Panama to the Aretic Ocean. 
more conspicuous species from the coast north of Monterey have 
Panama, lies a va 
searched at all for Crustacea, though ite birds, reptiles, fishes and mollusks 
have been preity thoronghly studied. 
