Heron Conservation. Edited by James A  Kushlan and, Heinz  Hafner. Published by Academic Press, San Diego (California), in collaboration with the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc (France). $59.95. xvi + 480 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–12–430130–4. 2000.Birds of the Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California & Southern Nevada. W. L. Moody, Jr, Natural History Series, Volume 30. By John H  Rappole; with photographs by Barth Schorre, Vernon Grove, David Parmelee, William Paff, and VIREO (Philadelphia Academy of Sciences). College Station (Texas): Texas A&M University Press. $39.95 (hardcover); $17.95 (paper). xv + 329 p + 456 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–89096–957–4 (hc); 0–89096–958–2 (pb). 2000.

2002 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-77
Author(s):  
John T Rotenberry
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Natural History ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
College Station ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Animal taxa named for Rollo H. Beck

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Fellers
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South America ◽  
Southern California ◽  
American Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Vertebrate Zoology ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Rollo Howard Beck (1870–1950) was a professional bird collector who spent most of his career on expeditions to the Channel Islands off southern California, the Galápagos Islands, South America, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean. Some of the expeditions lasted as long as ten years during which time he and his wife, Ida, were often working in primitive conditions on sailing vessels or camps set up on shore. Throughout these expeditions, Beck collected specimens for the California Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley (California), the American Museum of Natural History, and the Walter Rothschild Museum at Tring, England. Beck was one of the premier collectors of his time and his contributions were recognized by having 17 taxa named becki in his honor. Of these taxa, Beck collected 15 of the type specimens.

Edgar Lee Hewett

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Fisher
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Southern California ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
American Research ◽  
And Training ◽  
Museum Of New Mexico

We are called upon to record the loss of one of the last of the “early greats” in American Archaeology, Edgar Lee Hewett, who took his eternal place on December 31, 1946 with his illustrious contemporaries in the science— Lewis H. Morgan, Frederic W. Putnam, J. Wesley Powell, William H. Holmes, J. Walter Fewkes, Adolf F. Bandelier, Alice C. Fletcher, and Charles F. Lummis. Philosopher, teacher, world traveler and explorer, Doctor Hewett leaves an enviable record which includes: the founding and direction for thirty-seven years of the Archaeological Institute's School of American Research; the establishment of departments of anthropology in two leading universities (University of New Mexico and University of Southern California); the building of two important museums (Museum of New Mexico and San Diego Museum); the development and training of several distinguished professional archaeologists; and the endowment of “The Humanities” with numerous essays, papers, and books comprising more than two hundred titles—archaeological, philosophical, sociological, historical, and pedagogical—readable yet scholarly.

The centipede Theatops posticus (Say) (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) in the southwestern United States and Mexico

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2637-2644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland M. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Santa Cruz Island ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Common ◽  
Northwestern Mexico ◽  
Pacific Species

The common eastern Nearctic centipede Theatops posticus (Say), previously reported once each from Arizona and southern Utah and therefore considered rare in southwestern North America, is widespread in Arizona and newly recorded from southern Nevada, southwestern New Mexico, southern California, and northwestern Mexico (Baja California Norte, Sonora, and Chihuahua); it is even known from Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean off the southern California coast. The species therefore exhibits a continental distribution pattern, with eastern and western populations segregated by some 1200 km (750 mi) in Texas and New Mexico. Some southwestern individuals exhibit small ventral spurs on the ultimate pre femora and (or) femora, and coxopleurae with slightly elevated, caudally produced medial borders, conditions that are intermediate between those displayed by the eastern population and the congener in California and southern Oregon. Since these variants are also geographically intermediate, they prove that the latter's phenotypic resemblance to Theatops erythrocephalus (C. L. Koch) in southern Europe represents convergence. Consequently, this name is not applicable to the Pacific species, and californiensis Chamberlin is available as its correct specific name.

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