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November 12. The Panama-Pacific Exposition (illustrated), by Mr. Charles 

 B. Turrill, San Francisco. 



November 19. The Conservation of the Marine Life of the Pacific (illus- 

 trated with moving pictures and stereopticon slides), by 

 Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, Director, Museum Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences. 



November 26. Discovery of the Cause of Magnetism and of Universal 

 Gravitation (illustrated), by Captain T. J. J. See, Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics, United States Navy. 



December 2. A Recent Trip to the Republic of Colombia (illustrated), by 

 Mr. C. B. Lastreto, San Francisco. 



December 10. Indo-China, by Mdlle. Jehanne Bietry, Publisher, "Bulletin 

 Financier et Economique de l'lndochine," Saigon, Indo- 

 China. 



December 17. The California Academy of Sciences Expedition to the Gulf 

 of California (illustrated), by Mr. Joseph R. Slevin, 

 Assistant Curator, Department of Herpetology, California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The Academy, through the co-operation of the National 

 Geographic Society, the San Diego Society of National His- 

 tory and the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, was 

 able to take advantage of the courteous offer of the Govern- 

 ment of Mexico and visited the islands off the coast of 

 Lower California to ascertain the status of the fur seal, the 

 sea otter and the elephant seal, which, it was known, former- 

 ly occurred in those waters. 



The fish patrol boat "Tecate" of the Mexican Govern- 

 ment was placed at the disposal of the expedition without 

 cost. The results of the expedition will be noted in the re- 

 ports of the Director and of the Curators of the Museum. 

 I desire merely to state that the total cost of this expedition, 

 including all expenses and services of those who participated, 

 was $1,917.42 which was shared as follows: 



National Geographic Society $500.00 



San Diego Society of National History 355.44 



Scripps Institution for Biological Research 264.64- 



California Academy of Sciences 797.34 



The Grizzly Bear Habitat Group, which, as noted in last 

 year's report, was made possible by a generous donation 

 from Mr. Ogden Mills, has been completed and was opened 

 to the public on March 12, 1922. With this installation 

 the available space for the large-size habitat groups has 



