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day evening of each month. These have been given at the 

 regular monthly meetings which, through the courtesy of 

 the Engineers' Club of San Francisco, have been held in the 

 hall of that society on the ninth floor of the Mechanics' 

 Institute building. The list of lectures and tlieir subjects will 

 be found in the President's report (pp. 311-312). 



The Academy has continued the Sunday afternoon course 

 of popular lectures which were begun October 22, 1916, soon 

 after the Museum was formally opened to the public. These 

 lectures are given in the auditorium of the Museum at 3 

 o'clock each Sunday afternoon. The popularity of the course 

 remains undiminished; the size of the audiences has been 

 limited only by the size of the auditorium. The lecture 

 committee "for the year, Mr. W. W. Sargeant, Miss Alice 

 Eastwood and Mr. Paul J. Fair, has been energetic and re- 

 sourceful in securing lecturers and arranging the details for 

 these lectures. A list of the lectures given in 1918 will be 

 found on pages 312-314 of the President's report. 



Attention is again called to the fact that the Academy has 

 no funds from which to meet even the slight expense con- 

 nected with these lectures. It is hoped that some friend of 

 the Academy who feels an interest in the educational work 

 it is doing may provide a small endowment the income from 

 which can be applied to the expenses of public lectures. 



FIELD WORK OF THE MUSEUM .STAFF 



Within the year the Museum conducted a number of import- 

 ant field investigations, as follows: 



Channel Islands.— During the latter part of March (March 

 22-31) the Museum sent an expedition to the Channel Islands 

 off the coast of southern California. The party consisted of 

 the Director of the Museum, the Curator and Assistant Cura- 

 tor of the Department of Herpetology, Mr. Joseph Mailliard 

 of San Francisco, and Mr. J. Eugene Law of Los Angeles. 

 Through the courtesy of the California Fish and Game Com- 

 mission the party was able to visit San Clemente, San Nico- 

 las, Santa Barbara, and Santa Catalina islands. This oppor- 

 tunity is taken to express to the officials of the Fish and 

 Game Commission, especially Mr. Carl Westerfeld, Executive 



