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‘ticulars concerning this munificent and most unexpected gift in 
our next number. 
Tue annual meeting of the California Academy of Sciences was 
held on Monday evening, January 6, 1873. The following gentle- 
men were elected officers for the ensuing year : — President, George 
Davidson; Vice-President, John Hewston; Treasurer, Elisha 
Brooks; Corresponding Secretary, Henry G. Hanks; Recording 
Secretary, C. G. Yale; Director of the Museum, H. G. Bloomer ; 
Librarian, C. N. Ellinwood, M.D.; Trustees, T. P. Madden, D.D. 
Colton, Robert E. C. Stearns, Oliver Eldridge. The President, 
Treasurer and Recording Secretary, are also Trustees, ex-officio. 
The President’s annual address shows that an increasing interest 
in the objects of the Academy is manifested by the public, and 
that the coming year is likely to be one of material interest in the 
affairs of the Academy. 
A regular meeting of the California Academy of Sciences was 
held Feb. 18, 1873, in which General Hewston announced to the 
Academy a magnificent donation from James Lick, in the form of 
a deed to a piece of property on Market street, adjoining the 
premises of St. Ignatius College on the east. The dimensions of 
the plot were eighty feet front by two hundred and seventy-five feet 
in depth, being one hundred vara lot No. 126. The conveyance of 
the property is subject to various conditions, the purport of which 
is that the Academy shall erect thereon a substantial three story 
brick building, faced with granite, in classic style of architecture, 
and decorated with emblems of science. The building and prop- 
erty shall be devoted exclusively to the purposes of science; it 
shall remain unencumbered in the possession of the ‘Academy ; no 
part shall be leased at any time, nor shall its use be permitted for 
political or religious purposes in any way. It further devolves 
upon the Academy to secure the fund requisite for the erection of 
the edifice specified within the period of two years, and to prose- 
cute the project to completion within a reasonable time. The 
plan of the building contemplates among its principal apartments 
a library, museum and lecture room. The announcement of this 
donation excited great enthusiasm. © 
The President remarked that he felt incompetent at the time to 
express the sense of the Academy in fitting terms. The Trustees, 
in considering the project of securing accommodations for the 
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