A new shell allied to Tethys Calif ornicus, Cooper, was found at San 

 Pedro last summer by T. D. A. Cockerell. It is described in the Dec. 

 Nautilus as T. Ritteri, Cockl. 



Professor Greene, in the latest Pittonia, Vol. IV, Part 25, describes 

 a wealth of new species from all over North America ; many of them it is 

 interesting to observe have been trodden over by eastern botanists for 

 many decades. Among the western additions is a new Crucifer, Thysano- 

 carpus afUnis from the collection of Mrs. Blanche Trask, Catalina Island. 



Dr. Harry Beale Torrey of the University of California is making- 

 some studies during the December low tides of the sea anemones with 

 particular reference to their reproduction. Pie has also looked over the 

 collection of marine hydroids dredged last summer during the session 

 of the San Pedro Biological Laboratory and found about thirty-five forms, 

 over twenty-five of which have not been described. 



The subject for the February lecture of the Academy of Sciences will 

 pertain to Libraries. The speaker will be Miss Mary L. Jones, the librarian 

 of our Public Library in Los Angeles. 



Prof. W. W. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, will be 

 with us in March and will lecture before the Academy on the second 

 Tuesday of the month. The subject will be announced later. 



TRANSACTIONS. 

 Southern California Academy of Sciences. 



Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 9, 1901. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Southern California Academy of 

 Sciences was held this evening at 724 South Broadway. 

 President Knight occupied the chair. 



The minutes of the November meeting were read and approved. 

 Ten candidates for membership, whose applications had previously, 

 in accordance with the By-Laws, been passed upon by the Board of 

 Directors, were elected into fellowship. Those elected were : 



Dr. Robert D. Emery, Dr. Geo. H. Hull. 



Irvin G. Lewis, Rev. H. K. Walker, 



Miss Edith Claypole, Dr. Geo. L. Cole, 



Bishop J. H. Johnson, Miss Agnes Claypole, 



Albert B. Ulrey, Colton Russell, 



Mr. S. B. Parish of Redlands was elected an honorary member of 

 the Academy. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. A. M. Shields of San Fran- 

 cisco, who desired to donate to the Academy some valuable ornithological 

 and zoological specimens. 



A preliminary report of the Leonid meteoric observations, made at 

 Claremont College under the directorship of Prof. E. K. Brackett, was 



