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Dive into the treasures housed in the Academy's Research Library, from vintage photographs, digitized field notes, and other delightful discoveries.
July 9, 2013
Today marked our semi-annual page turning of the Audubon Double-Elephant portfolio on display in the library reading room. Cameras were on hand to record this momentous occasion.
June 21, 2013
Diane T Sands
This month's Illustration Smackdown takes a look at the chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes. One of the great apes, chimpanzees are, as these things go, closely related to humans. But how close?
June 14, 2013
Last month I wrote about Leverett Mills Loomis, the two Guadalupe Storm Petrels, and the other items he rescued from the fire that destroyed the California Academy of Sciences in the wake of the 1906...
June 14, 2013
Diane T Sands
For those of you able to stop by the Library Reading Room, there is a newly installed exhibit featuring BATS!
May 17, 2013
Diane T Sands
The Remora remora, or common suckerfish, is an odd pelagic marine fish usually found in warmer parts of most oceans. They can be found offshore from San Francisco south to Chile.
May 15, 2013
Part One: The Einstein Letter
May 3, 2013
Happy May! T.S. Eliot famously wrote “April is the cruelest month,” and when I look back on 160 years of the California Academy of Sciences, I am inclined to agree with that sentiment.
April 30, 2013
During our ongoing photo collection survey, we came across an image (by Moulin Studios) of a scale model version of the lion diorama that still stands in African Hall.