ABSTRACT
In the month of Junej at the invitation of Admiral Serres, Cessac was able to sail on the frigate La Magicienne-with all the collections made in the course of a month's excavation at Ancon- and finally arrived in California. On the 20th of February Cessac wrote a letter to M. Charmes, Director of Sciences and Letters in the Ministere de 'Instruction publique, in which he explained his present financial situation. The island was, furthermore, the locale of a marooning which received great notoriety in California, In 1835 the survivors of the Indian population, about seven people, were brought to the Franciscan missions on the mainland. Among the ethnographic objects from California which escaped destruction and which were later found in the Musee de l'Homme are several rare specimens collected by Cessac from the last survivors of the Chumash tribe who occupied the coast and certain of the Channel Islands.
