Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume III, 1863-1867
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES.
VOLUME III.
1863-1867.
SAN FRANCISCO: PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY. 1868.
The date of publication of each sheet will be found at the bottom of pages. The sheets of this volume have been circulated separately, and also in annual parts, as follows:
A few copies of Vol. II, pp. 236, remain for sale by the Corresponding Secretary.
Volume I is out of print, but the Academy intends to reprint it when a sufficient number of copies have been ordered to refund the cost.
The following Memoirs were also published by the Academy, in quarto, in 1867.
ROOMS OF THE ACADEMY, 622 Clay Street, San Francisco, June, 1868 .
The Academy, desirous of increasing its numbers, and thus adding to its means of scientific research and diffusion of knowledge, has this year altered its title to that of “California Academy of Sciences,” and invites all interested in the increase and spread of any branch of knowledge to join in its work. All gentlemen residing within one hundred and fifty miles of San Francisco are, by the new Constitution, eligible to resident membership, with all the privileges of those in the city, including free copies of the proceedings published after their election.
A copy of the new Constitution, Annual Address of the late President, Prof. J. D. Whitney, and list of members at the commencement of 1868, may be obtained free by addressing the Corresponding Secretary.
Meetings are now held on the first and third Mondays of each month, at the rooms of the Academy, where lectures are given, papers read and discussions held on scientific subjects. All desiring to become members may be introduced at the meetings on application to the officers and members.
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Annual Meeting, January 5th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, January 19th, 1863.
Description of a New Species of Melica.
Regular Meeting, February 2d, 1863.
On the Inaccuracy of the Eighth Census, so far as it Relates to the Metallic and Mineral Statistics of the United States.
Regular Meeting, February 16th, 1863.
Description of two New Species of Plants from Nevada Territory.
Regular Meeting, March 2d, 1863.
Description of two New Species of Bivalve Shells, from the Tertiaries of Contra Costa County.
Description of two Species of Scutella.
Regular Meeting, March 16th, 1863.
Description of two New Species of Collomia from Nevada Territory.
Regular Meeting, April 5th, 1863.
Description of a New Genus and Species of Plant from Nevada Territory.
Regular Meeting, April 20th, 1863.
Gundlachia Pfeiffer.
Regular Meeting, May 4th, 1863.
Infusoria from the Moving Sands in the Neighborhood of San Francisco.
Description of Two New Species of Plants.
Regular Meeting, May 18th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, June 1st, 1863.
Description of a New Species of Hosackia.
Regular Meeting, June 15th, 1863.
Description of a New Species of Mentzelia.
Regular Meeting, July 6th, 1863.
Description of Three New Plants.
On the Gradual Elevation of the Land in the Environs of San Francisco.
Regular Meeting, July 20th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, August 3d, 1863.
Description of Four New Species of Echinodermata, from the Tertiaries of Contra Costa County.
Description of a New Species of Allium.
Regular Meeting, August 17th, 1863.
On New or Rare Mollusca Inhabiting the Coast of California.—No. II.
Description of a New Species of Alsine.
Regular Meeting, September 7th, 1863.
On a New Genus of Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting California.
Descriptions of New Species of Fishes.
Regular Meeting, October 5th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, October 19th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, November 2d, 1863.
On new Genera and Species of California Fishes—No. I.
Regular Meeting, November 16th, 1863.
Enumeration of Shrubs and Trees growing in the vicinity of the mouth of San Francisco Bay.
On Californian Lepidoptera—No. III.
On new Genera and Species of Californian Fishes—No. II.
Regular Meeting, December 7th, 1863.
Regular Meeting, December 21st, 1863.
Annual Meeting, January 4th, 1864.
Descriptions of New Californian Plants—No. I.
Descriptions of New Species of Fishes—No. II.
On New Genera and Species of Californian Fishes—No. III.
Regular Meeting, January 18th, 1864.
Descriptions of Nine New Species of Helix Inhabiting California.
Regular Meeting, February 1st, 1864.
Description of a New Species of Virgularia from the Coast of California.
Notice of Plants found Growing in Hot Springs in California.
Description of a New Species of Pedicularia.
Regular Meeting, February 15th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, March 7th, 1864.
On Californian Lepidoptera. No. IV.
Earthquakes in California During the Year 1863.
Regular Meeting, March 21st, 1864.
Regular Meeting, April 4th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, April 18th, 1864.
Earthquakes in California from 1800 to 1864.
Regular Meeting, May 2d, 1864.
On Cretaceous Fossils from Sahuaripa Valley, State of Sonora, Mexico, discovered by August Rémond
Regular Meeting, May 16th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, June 6th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, June 20th, 1864.
Adjourned Meeting, July 11th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, July 18th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, August 1st, 1864.
Regular Meeting, August 15th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, September 5th, 1864.
Notes on Californian Satyrides.
Note on a large lump of Gold found on the Middle fork of the American River.
Note on the Fossil remains of the Horse and Elephant, mingled, at Mare Island, San Francisco Bay.
Ammonites or Ceratites from Oregon Bar, Middle Fork of the American River.
On Brushite, a new mineral occurring in Phosphatic Guano.
Regular Meeting, Sept. 19th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, Oct. 3d, 1864.
Note on the discovery of Fossils in the Auriferous Slate formation of the Mariposa Estate, California, and the probable geological age.
Regular Meeting, Oct. 17th, 1864.
Regular Meeting, Nov. 21st, 1864.
Notes on some Fossils from the Gold Bearing Slates of Mariposa, with description of some new species.
Communication on the San Luis Obispo Quicksilver Fossils.
On the Crystallization of Brushite.
On new Californian Marine Shells. No. II.
Annual Meeting, Jan. 9th, 1865.
On Californian Lepidoptera.
Description of New Species of Land Shells.
Description of New Species of Marine Shells from the Coast of California.
Earthquakes in California during 1864.
Regular Meeting, Jan. 16th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, Feb. 6th, 1865.
New Mineral Oil Regions in the Tulare Valley.
Note upon the occurrence of Sphene in the Granite of the Sierra Nevada.
Regular Meeting, February 20th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, March 6th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, March 20th, 1865.
Euphorbia Prostrata as a remedy for the bite of venomous animals.
Regular Meeting, April 3d, 1865.
Regular Meeting, April 17th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, May 1st, 1865.
Occurrence of Fossils in the Auriferous Slates of California.
Regular Meeting, May 15th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, June 5th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, June 19th, 1865.
On the existence of an Atoll near the west coast of America, and proof of its elevation.
Regular Meeting, July 3, 1865.
Regular Meeting, July 17th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, August 7th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, August 21st, 1865.
The Grasses of Arizona.
Regular Meeting, September 4th, 1865.
Note on the abundance of Iron Ore in Northern Arizona.
Regular Meeting, September 18th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, October 2d, 1865.
Regular Meeting, October 16th, 1865.
Remarks on California Trees.
Regular Meeting, November 6th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, December 4th, 1865.
Regular Meeting, December 18th, 1865.
Notice of a peculiar Astringent Gum or Coloring Substance in the Cones of the Sequoia gigantea.
Ammonites in the Auriferous Slates of California.
Adjourned Annual Meeting, January 8th, 1866.
Memorial Sketch of Thomas Bridges, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., and Member of the Cala. Acad. Sci.
Regular Meeting, January 15th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, February 5th, 1866.
Notes on Antilocapra Americana, Ord.
Regular Meeting, February 19th, 1866.
Earthquakes in California during 1865.
Regular Meeting, March 5th, 1866.
Note on Octopus punctatus, Gabb.
Notice of Geological Explorations in Northern Mexico.
Regular Meeting, March 19th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, April 2d, 1866.
Description of a new California Helix, with notes on others already described.
Regular Meeting, April 16th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, May 7th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, May 21st, 1866.
On a New Subfamily of Fluviatile Mollusca.
Regular Meeting, June 4th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, June 18th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, July 2d, 1866.
Regular Meeting, July 16th, 1866.
List of Shells collected at Baulines Bay, California, June, 1866.
Notice of a Human Skull, recently taken from a Shaft near Angel’s, Calaveras County.
Regular Meeting, August 6th, 1866.
Enumeration of the Californian species of Lycæna.
List of Shells collected at Santa Barbara and San Diego by Mr. J. Hepburn, in February-March, 1866.
Notice of the Occurrence of a Tungstate of Lime and Copper in Lower California.
Regular Meeting, August 20th, 1866.
Miscellaneous Notices.
Regular Meeting, September 3d, 1866.
Regular Meeting, September 17th, 1866.
On a New Species of Pedipes, inhabiting the Coast of California.
Regular Meeting, October 1st, 1866.
Regular Meeting, October 15th, 1866.
Mineralogical Notices.—No. II.
Regular Meeting, November 5th, 1866.
Regular Meeting, November 19th, 1866.
On the Subdivisions of the Cretaceous Formation in California.
Fossil Fish in the Great Basin, Nevada.
Notice of the occurrence of the Silurian Series in Nevada.
Regular Meeting, December 3d, 1866.
Regular Meeting, December 17th, 1866.
Annual Meeting, January 7th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, January 21st, 1867.
On the Nourishment of the Fœtus in the Embiotocoid Fishes.
Regular Meeting, February 4th, 1867.
On the Fresh Water Infusorial Deposits of the Pacific Coast, and their Connection with the Volcanic Rocks.
Regular Meeting, February 18th, 1867.
Notice of Fossil Elephants’ Teeth from the Northwest Coast.
Regular Meeting, March 4th, 1867.
Remarkable Instance of Vitality in a Snail.
Regular Meeting, March 18th, 1867.
The West Coast Helicoid Land Shells.
Origin of the Submerged Forests in the Columbia River, Oregon.
Regular Meeting, April 1st, 1867.
Shells collected at Santa Barbara by W. Newcomb, M.D., in January, 1867.
List of Shells collected at Purissima and Lobitas, California, October, 1866.
Note upon the Brown Coal Formation of Washington Territory and Oregon.
Analysis of Mt. Diablo (California) Coal.
Regular Meeting, April 15th, 1867.
Notice of a peculiar mode of the occurrence of Gold and Silver in the Foot-Hills of the Sierra Nevada, and especially at Whisky Hill, in Placer County, and Quail Hill, in Calaveras County, California.
Regular Meeting, May 6th, 1867.
Description of a New Species of Pisidium.
Exhibition of Parhelia.
Notice of New Localities of Diamonds in California.
Regular Meeting, May 20th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, June 3d, 1867.
Regular Meeting, June 17th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, July 1st, 1867.
Regular Meeting, July 15th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, August 5th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, August 19th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, September 2d, 1867.
Regular Meeting, September 16th, 1867.
On the Height of Mt. Hood.
Regular Meeting, October 7th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, October 21st, 1867.
Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley.
Regular Meeting, November 4th, 1867.
On the Organs of Copulation in the Male of the Embiotocoid Fishes.
Regular Meeting, November 18th, 1867.
Special Meeting, November 27th, 1867.
Regular Meeting, December 2d, 1867.
Note on three new Localities of Tellurium Minerals in California, and on some Mineralogical Features of the Mother Vein.
List of Shells collected at Bodega Bay, California, June, 1867.
Shells collected by the U. S. Coast Survey Expedition to Alaska, in the year 1867.
Regular Meeting, December 16th, 1867.
Salt Spring Valley and the adjacent region in Calaveras County.
On the Occurrence of Glauberite at Borax Lake, California.
On the Scientific Name of the “Big Trees.”
INDEX OF AUTHORS.—1863-1868.
GENERAL INDEX.
