IOl6 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Donations to the Museum were reported from Mrs. Sophia Casey, G. P. 

 Kixford, C. S. Capp, Henry Helfrich and Henry Hemphill. 



Additions to the Library: 



From correspondents 113 



By purchase 49 



By donation 4 



Dr. David Starr Jordan delivered a lecture on The Value of Faunal 

 Studies. 



The amendments to the Constitution proposed by Mr. Molera were pre- 

 sented and on vote the matter was indefinitely postponed. 



October 21, 1895. — Stated Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Otto von Gc4dern, John Hornung and Hermann Kower were proposed 

 for membership. 



Additions to the Herbarium: 



358 specimens collected by Dr. Edw. Palmer at Acapulco, Mexico, 

 donated by California Botanical Club. 



195 specimens collected in the Hawaiian Islands by A. A. Heller, 

 donated by the curator. 



17 specimens from Catalina Island, donated by Mrs. W. J. Trask. 



Dr. H. H. Behr made "Some Remarks on Extinct Animals and the 

 causes which led to their Extinction." 



The following papers were read by title: 



Notes on a Specimen of Alejnsaurus (nsculapius Bean, from the Coast of 

 San Luis Obispo Co., Cal. By Flora Hartley. 



Description of a New Jack Babbit from San Pedro Martir Mountain, 

 Lower California. By John M. Stowell. 



A Supplement to the Bibliography of the Paleozoic Crustacea. By 

 Anthony W. Vogdes. 



A Review of the Herpetology of Lower California. Part 1 — Reptiles. 

 By John Van Denburgh. 



On Land and Fresh Water Shell of Lower California. No. 5. On West 

 Mexican Land and Fresh Water Mollusca. By J. G. Cooper. 



On Heteromorphic Organs of Sequoia semper virens. By Alice Eastwood. 



California Water Birds, No. 1. By Leverett M. Loomis. 



Coleoi^tera of Baja California. Supplement. By Geo. H. Horn. 



Third Report on some Mexican Hymeuoptera. By Wm. J. Fox. 



The Fishes of Sinaloa. By David Starr Jordan. 



Some Mexican Neuroptera. By Nathan Banks. 



The Species of the Genus Xantusia. By. John Van Denburgh. 



