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known for liis detailed knowledge of Galapagos rejitilcs, who will have com- 

 pleted fifty years of service to the Academy in 1954. Leverett Mills Loomis, who 

 served as director before Dr. Evermann, was later curator of sea birds. Though 

 a competent ornithologist, Loomis' stern, uncompromising opinions ruffled other 

 feathers from time to time. There was no question, however, but that Loomis 

 was an able "museum man." 



In entomology the Academy's collections and reputation grew under the 

 curatorship of a coleopterist, E. C. Van Dyke, who served from 1904 until 1916, 

 assisted by Carl Fuchs. Later E. P. Van Dazce, a hemipterist, became curator 

 of the collections and edited the Pan-Pacific Entomologist, a periodical aided 

 financially by the Academy. 



"History itself," writes Professor Frederick J. Teggart, "does not seek to 

 elucidate the future; it takes account only of the steps by which the present 

 situation has come to be as it is." Prophecy, then, has no proper place in this 

 sketch. The emphasis has been rather on the character of the naturalist, his 

 sources and resources, his efforts to found an Academy of Sciences devoted first 

 to the descriptive fields of the natural sciences and more recently metamorphosing 

 into an interpretative effort where the accumulated facts may be fitted into a 

 possible pattern. 



Dr. Stillman, the pioneer naturalist-physician of San Francisco, wrote a bit 

 wryly : 



Of those who returned to their old homes [from California] to enjoy the fruits 

 of their enterprise we know but little, we pity them much. ... To them and our 

 children we leave this beloved land. . . . We have not all realized the hopes that 

 made radiant the morning of our lives and sustained us through so great hardships; — 

 fortune was ever a capricious goddess. . . . Our brethren told us fin 1S49] to go in 

 freedom's name and possess the land — "to read no more history until you have made it." 



Crescit sciential 



Roster of Biographies 



This roster is planned as a guide to biographical references to persons, both 

 visitors and residents, who have become associated with San Francisco, a contri- 

 bution toward some ultimate "IVIeisel" for California natural history. "San 

 Francisco" as used in the title is inclusive and refers to the general San Francisco 

 Bay region but does not extend south of the Stanford habitat nor north of Marin 

 County. "Naturalist" herein accents the natural history collector but includes 

 resident persons who have been traditionally associated with such collections as 

 descriptive biologists. The time limits extend from the earliest contacts subse- 

 quent to the purely historic figures whose role was merely incidental (and are 

 thus not included) to the present time, but no effort has been made to include 

 all the contemporaries since to do so would amount to reproducing membership 

 lists of local organizations and to throwing the whole portrait of the growth of 

 San Francisco natural history out of focus. 



The plan of this roster follows certain other bibliographic tools of this nature, 

 provided by Britten and Boulgcr in England, ])y Ignatz Urban for the West 

 Indies, and by the author for the Rocky IMountain region. Code words in italics 

 used to abbreviate sources wherein biographical materials may be found are 

 explained in the introductory list of ablu-ovintions. Ancillary references to the 



