The First Americans. Nina G. Jablonski editor. 2002. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences Number 27, San Francisco, California, xiv + 331 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-940228-50-5 - The First Americans. James M. Adovasio with Jake Page. 2002. Random House, New York, xii + 328 pp. $ 26.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-375-50552-0.

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-189
Author(s):  
Bruce B. Huckell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
California Academy ◽  
First Americans ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

scholarly journals The bees of the genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Vivallo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Museum ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Drexel University ◽  
California Academy ◽  
University Museum

In this paper the primary types of Centris bees described by the British entomologist Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell deposited in the Natural History Museum (London) and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Oxford) in the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States National Museum (Washington), American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (Philadelphia), and in the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) in the United States were studied. To stabilize the application of the name C. lepeletieri (= C. haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius)), a lectotype is designated. The study of the primary types allow proposing the revalidation of C. cisnerosi nom. rev. from the synonymy of C. agilis Smith, C. nitida geminata nom. rev. from C. facialis Mocsáry, C. rufulina nom. rev. from C. varia (Erichson), C. semilabrosa nom. rev. from C. terminata Smith and C. triangulifera nom. rev. from C. labrosa Friese. Centris bakeri syn. nov., C. bimaculata carrikeri syn. nov., C. fusciventris matoensis syn. nov., C. heterodonta syn. nov. and C. elegans grenadensis syn. nov. are proposed as a new junior synonyms of C. varia, C. claripennis Friese nom. rev., C.  caurensis, C. dentata Smith and C. elegans Smith, respectively. Centris ruae is withdrawn from the synonymy of C. transversa Pérez and proposed as a new junior synonym of C. nitida Smith. In addition, a lectotype for C. buchholzi Herbst (= C. wilmattae) is designated. Information on the repository of the lectotype of C. lepeletieri and images of most primary types studied here are also provided.

THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-216
Author(s):  
Tatyana Liverovskaya ◽  
◽  
Marina Pikulenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

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.

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

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

Re Archaeology of the Galapagos Islands

1953 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-171 ◽  
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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