A Coastal Chumash Village: Excavations of Shisholop, Ventura County, California. Roberta S. Greenwood and and R. O. Browne. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 8, October, 1969; Anderson, Ritchie and Simon, Los Angeles. 79 pp., 17 illus. No price given.

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-227
Author(s):  
Chester D. King
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Ventura County ◽  
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.

A new species of Chama (Bivalvia, Chamidae) from Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2446 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
PAUL VALENTICH-SCOTT ◽  
EUGENE V. COAN
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Mollusk Fauna ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

While preparing a review of the bivalve mollusk fauna of the Panamic Province, we encountered a conspicuous, colorful species of the genus Chama Linnaeus, 1758, that could not be identified with any named species. After examining type specimens at The Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), the United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM), the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP), the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), we have concluded that this species is new to science.

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