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Intimate association with our late life member, for now 

 more than a quarter of a century, enables us to speak from 

 personal knowledge ; otherwise some one more suitable 

 should have been chosen. We are fain to overlook the 

 foibles, or view with genial eye the failings, of our friends; 

 while we duly estimate their virtues, and by all means justly 

 appreciate their labors and devotion to the cause of science. ! 

 It must be too evident to all that the appropriate limits of 

 this occasion will not permit us to dwell, save in general 

 terms, upon the great personal devotion of time, money, 

 and the sacrifice of a thousand golden opportunities of 

 gain that marked the ever memorable era of lucre which 

 witnessed the early efforts— may I not rather say struggles? 

 — of the charter members of this Academy. The scorn and 

 ridicule reflected by the press and otherwise (and some of 

 those flippant authors are alive unto this day) — all these 

 also was the pioneer obliged to brave. They can not be 

 altogether forgotten until some beneficent raven wing of 

 oblivion shadow other eyes to these Pacific shores. True, 

 the press and the public have made, and are making, ample 

 amends, to their honor be it spoken; albeit our brother 

 and others less need the kindly words of encouragement. 

 Let us briefly return to fond reminiscences of the past, and 

 review the ground of the esteem we are wont in love and 

 duty to accord to his memory. 



On our records we find the following descriptions by 

 Dr. Trask: 



1. Description of a new species of Niades. 



2. Description of Ammonites Batesii. 



3. Descriptions of Fossil Shells. 



4. On Earthquakes in California from 1812 to 1855. 



5. Descriptions of new species of Ammonite and Bacpulite. 



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