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about $50,000. The net excess of revenues over expenditures 

 was about $7000. The assets of the Academy as carried in the 

 book accounts, not including the Ignatz Steinhart Trust Fund, 

 were in round numbers $1,495,000 at the close of the year, but 

 subject to a debt of $300,000 for which the Market Street 

 property is a pledge. 



During the year 1919, ten free lectures have been delivered 

 at the stated meeting of the Academy, as follows : 



January 15. How Migrating Birds Find Their Way. 



Mr. Leverett Mills Loomis, San Francisco, California. 



March 19. Pine Insects and their Depredations. 



Mr. Ralph Hopping, United States Forest Service, 



April 16. Tehachapi as a Faunal Barrier. 



Prof. John O. Snyder, Department of Zoology, Stan- 

 ford University, and Dr. Roy E. Dickerson, 

 California Academy of Sciences. 



May 21. The Naked Mollusks of Monterey Bay. 



Dr. F. M. MacFarland, Professor of Histology, 

 Stanford University. 



July 16. Fish and Game Legislation of the 1919 Legislature. 



Mr. Carl Westerfeld, Executive Officer, Fish and 



Game Commission of California. 

 August 20. Notes on the Birds of Lake County, California. 



Mr. Joseph Mailliard, Honorary Curator, Department 



of Ornithology, California Academy of Sciences. 



September 10. Egypt, the Land where Ancient and Modern Civilizations 

 Meet. 



Mr. I. H. Morse, San Francisco, California 



October 1. The Butterfly Map; or The Ground Plan of the World to 



Scale 



Mr. B. J. S. Cahill, Oakland, California. 



November 5. The New Theory of the Aether and of the Molecular 

 Forces. 



Captain Thomas J. J. See, Professor of Mathematics, 

 United States Navy. 



December 3. The Need of more serious Effort to rescue a Fragment of 

 Vanishing Nature. 



Dr. Francis B. Sumner, Professor of Zoology, 

 University of California. 



The Sunday afternoon lectures delivered in the Museum 

 building during 1919 were generally attended by about as large 

 an audience as the limited facilities of the temporary auditorium 

 permit. They include the following : 



January 5. Thirty Thousand Miles in China. 



Dr. C. K. Edmunds, President 

 College, Canton, China. 



of Canton Christian 



