The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World. Nina Jablonski, editor. University of California Press, San Francisco, 2002. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences No. 27, Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology, xiv + 331 pp., figures, bibliographies, index, $35.00 (paper).

The article is dedicated to one of the largest museum centers of natural history in the world - the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, USA), which is, since its founding in 1853, both a research and scientific and educational organization. The California Academy of Sciences, in its current version, presents a prime example of the development of basic museum’s concepts in USA: guardianship, corporate museum, museum communication, achieving the goals of sustainable development of society, the involvement in science the population on the basis of the system “STEM-education” (Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics). The article analyzes the history and modern activities of the museum in terms of exhibition features, scientific and educational practice. Architectural, artistic and engineering solutions, features of internal infrastructure, themes, content and design of the exhibition complex reflect the stated national mission to "explore, explain and sustain"), in accordance with the implementation of the declared environmental concept of sustainable development (fighting global climate warming, the development of technologies of energy conservation, cleanliness and waste of production, etc.). On the basis of our own museum observations, analysis of literary data, we can conclude that museums as social institutions and interactive technologies used in the educational process are most suitable for the task of introducing the widest range of citizens to science and culture. The example of the California Academy of Sciences provides important guidelines for the development of museums in our country.

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Pyralidae from the Collection of the California Academy of Sciences (Lepidoptera)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent91161-3 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 91 (3) ◽

pp. 161-167

Author(s):

Eugene Munroe

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

San Francisco ◽

New Genus ◽

California Academy ◽

Academy Of Sciences

Through the kindness of Mr. Hugh B. Leech I have been able to examine a large number of Pyralidae from the collection of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Five new species found in this material are described here. A new genus is described to accommodate two of the species, and two known species are transferred from the genus in which they were described

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NEW SPECIES OF CARPHOBORUS EICH. WITH KEY TO SPECIES NORTH OF MEXICO (COLEOPTERA-SCOLYTIDAE)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent65103-5 ◽

1933 ◽

Vol 65 (5) ◽

pp. 103-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

C. R. Bruck

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

North America ◽

Bark Beetles ◽

University Of California ◽

Western North America ◽

Intensive Study ◽

Key To Species ◽

California Academy ◽

The University ◽

Academy Of Sciences

While making an intensive study of the bark beetles of Western North America, I noticed that two of the species in the genus Carphoborus were new. Since the last key to the species of this genus has been compiled (Swaine, 1918) Dr. Swaine has described five new species which with my two would more than double the number in the genus. I therefore feel that a new key should be made.I am indebted to the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences for the use of its collection of this genus, and to Dr. E. C. Van Dyke of the University of California for his helpful criticisms.

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Re Archaeology of the Galapagos Islands

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/276924 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 171-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. W. Gifford

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Galapagos Islands ◽

Galápagos Islands ◽

California Academy ◽

Academy Of Sciences

I am indebted to my former Galapagos colleague, Mr. Joseph R. Slevin, Curator of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, for the following data which may have some pertinence in the moot problem of Amerindian archaeology in the Galapagos Islands. Mr. Slevin, recently in London, excerpted portions of the original logs and diaries of early voyagers to the Galapagos for his book on that group.From the log book of the Ship Rattler, Captain James Colnett, R. N., April 26, 1794, referring to James Island: “At several places he [the chief mate] stopped found numbers of jars, old iron, and a decayed dagger and several other articles decayed with time and which we still conjecture was left here by the buccaneers.” The whaling master of the Rattler also found broken pieces of jars.Apropos of buccaneers leaving supplies are the following quotations from the diaries of buccaneer Captains Davies and Ambrose Cowley.

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