SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 31 



GROLOGICAL SECTION. 



Los Angeles, Feb. 25th, 1901. 



The Geological Section met at the rooms of the Southwestern Miners' 

 Association, at 8 pm. In the absence of Chairman Parsons, President Wm. H. 

 Knight called the meeting to order. The minutes of the last meeting were 

 read by the Secretary and approved. 



Mr. Wm. Hodgson placed on exhibition a number of bones found on 

 the desert some sixty miles from Mojave, which were apparently fossils of 

 gigantic animals belonging to a previous geological era, also several 

 Indian relics found in that vicinity. 



Mrs. Mary E. Hart gave a brief sketch of her mining experience at 

 Nome, having lately returned from that section. She exhibited a collection 

 of photographs of the inhabitants of Alaska, also of reindeer and other curi- 

 osities, also samples of tundra, moss which comprises almost the exclusive 

 food of the reindeer, Alaska cotton, and samples of gold dust. Her report 

 of that section was full of interest. Capt. J. J. Healy and Col. A. B. Hamil- 

 ton of Seattle, formerly Alaska miners, were present and added much to the 

 interest of the occasion with their reminiscences. The section then ad- 

 journed. 



G. Major Taber, Sec'y. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The proposed meeting was postponed on account of the inclemency o 



the weather. 



L. GreaTA, Secretary. 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



A meeting of the Board of Directors was held in the office of the Presi- 

 dent. A full quorum was present. 



Seven applications for membership were passed favorably. The names 

 of the applicants were as follows: Dean W. T. Randall, Miss A. G. Cooper, 

 Miss Louise Lyde, Prof. J. A. Hoose, Paul Arnold, Dr. D L. Tasker, Fred 

 Brown. 



The offer of Prof W. W. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, to 

 lecture before the Academy at the regular monthly meeting in March was 

 accepted and the Secretary instructed to make arrangements for a hall of 

 suflBcient capacity for the occasion. 



Bills to the extent of $45.65 were passed. 



There being no further business the meeting stood adjourned. 



Secretary. 



