322 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



October 1, 1888.— Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Additions to Museum: — 



Specimen of wood from tunnel 500 feet from surface at 

 Placerville Mine, by D. B. Woolf. 



Five specimens of birds, by W. D. Bliss. 

 Collection of birds' stomachs, by A. H. Hawley. 

 Twenty-six mammals, by Walter E. Bryant. 



Additions to Library: — 



From correspondents 62 



By donation ■ . 8 



By purchase 1 



The following paper was read: — 



Trees and Shrubs of the Sierra Nevada, by M. K. Curran. 



Dr. R. G. Eccles, of New York, addressed the meeting. 



October 15, 1888.— Stated Meeting. 



Yice-President Hewston in the chair. 



Additions to Museum : — • 



Specimens of Zauschneria Cali/ornica and Cordylanthus 

 Jilifolms, Belding. 



Fourteen herbarium specimens, by S. B. Parrish. 



Stick of Poison Oak (Pihus diversiloba), 13 inches in cir- 

 cumference, by Walter E. Bryant. 



One specimen of Snake, by Dr. Behr. 



Specimen of Goregoims Willlamsoni, fish stomachs, fresh- 

 water sponges and polyps — all from Lake Tahoe, by Dr. 

 Harkuess. 



