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6. Description of new species of Plagiostoma. 



7. On Earthquakes in California in 1856. 



8. On the direction and velocity of the Earthquake of 

 January 9, 1857. 



9. On some new Microscopic Organisms. 



10. New species of Zoophytes. 



11. Earthquakes in California during the year 1857. 



12. Earthquakes in California in 1858, 1859, and 1860. 



13. Earthquakes in California in 1863 and 1864. 



14. Earthquakes in California from 1800 to 1864. 



15. Earthquakes in California during 1864. 



16. Earthquakes in California during 1865. 



The last paper was read before the Academy February 

 19, 1866; since which time, although always interested in 

 the welfare of the institution, he ceased to take an active 

 part, and devoted his time principally to the practice of 

 medicine. In this, so far as our personal knowledge ex- 

 tends, he was professionally skillful ; remarkable for origi- 

 nality and independent thought ; earnest and generous- 

 hearted ; free from the acquisitive instinct ; and, like many 

 others of this liberal profession, was ever ready and prompt 

 to save those who needed his services, without money and 

 without price. If he had been avaricious, he might have 

 amassed wealth ; for no one was more active, and none more 

 widely known. Opportunities for pecuniary advancement 

 were frequently within his reach ; but he was as careless in 

 such matters as in his dress. Direct and blunt of manner — 

 perhaps some thought him rough and rude of speech — he 

 was nevertheless sympathetic and co-operacive, and, as we 

 who knew him best actually can testify, was ever ready to 

 lend a helping hand or do a kindly deed. Divested of the 

 rough hereditary exterior, like the diamond hid in its native 



