314 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



December 22. The Application of the Science of Geology in Exploration 

 for Oil. 



Dr. Bruce L. Clark, Department of Paleontology, 



University of California. 

 December 29. The Lessons of the Southeast Wind. 



Dr. Marsden Manson. 



In the matter of the Ignatz Steinhart bequest of $250,000 

 to the Academy for the erection and equipment of an 

 aquarium in Golden Gate Park, it can now be reported that 

 the city through a charter amendment, adopted at the elec- 

 tion last November, has been definitely coinmitted to an ac- 

 ceptance of the conditions named in the bequest. Your Board 

 of Trustees, too, has signified to the Executors of the Estate 

 their acceptance of the trust imposed by the Steinhart will. 

 There are, therefore, no obstacles in the way of proceeding 

 with the making of plans and the erection of the building 

 except only those incident to settling up an estate which con- 

 sists in large part of real estate for which there is no imme- 

 diate demand. 



Since the close of the year of which this report is a brief 

 record, the Council of the Academy has been advised by Mr. 

 John W. Mailliard and Mr. Joseph Mailliard that their large 

 and valuable collection of eggs and bird skins is to be donated 

 to the Academy. The plan of transfer, tentatively suggested 

 and which will within a few days be put into effect, will obligate 

 the Academy to immediately furnish space for a part of the 

 collection, which the Mailliard brothers desire to have ade- 

 quately housed in the Museum building. The rest of the col- 

 lection will follow from time to time at their pleasure ; but the 

 question of ultimate ownership will be at once definitely settled. 



The Academy is fortunate indeed to thus acquire the re- 

 sults of the lifetime work of two enthusiastic students of 

 birds, who have both long been active members of the 

 Academy ; and I take this occasion to express the Academy's 

 deepest gratitude to the donors. May they continue to take 

 the same satisfaction and pleasure in the collection in a new 

 home as they have heretofore. 



Preliminary announcement should be made, too, of the 

 fact that under the terms of the will of the late S. Field 

 Thorn, long a resident of San Francisco, the Academy is to 

 receive a tract of land near Santa Cruz, containing about 240 



