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administrator. The mineral collection is the property of the State 

 of California. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. Annual appropriations by the city, that 

 for 1910 being $3000, exclusive of repairs. 



ADMINISTRATION. By a curator, responsible to a joint board 

 consisting of the mayor of the city and the directors of the California 

 Museum Association. 



PUBLICATIONS. Catalogs of paintings and of minerals in the 

 collections. 



ATTENDANCE. Open free to public every day in the week. Num- 

 ber of visitors in 1909, 13,387. 



SAN FRANCISCO: 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Museum. 



STAFF. Director, Leverett Mills Loomis ; Curators, Edwin Cooper 

 Van Dyke (entomology), Leverett Mills Loomis (ornithology), John 

 Van Denburgh (herpetology), Frank M. Anderson (invertebrate 

 paleontology), John Rowley (mammalogy), A. L. Kroeber (anthro- 

 pology), Alice Eastwood (botany); Assistant curators, Edward 

 Winslow Gifford (ornithology), Joseph C. Thompson (herpetology), 

 Washington H. Ochsner (invertebrate paleontology) ; Assistants 

 Charles Fuchs (entomology), Rollo H. Beck (ornithology), Joseph 

 R. Slevin and John I. Carlson (herpetology). 



COLLECTIONS. With the exception of a few type specimens, the 

 collections of the academy, including the library, were destroyed in the 

 conflagration of April, 1906. Fortunately, at the time of the fire, the 

 academy had an expedition at the Galapagos Islands, in its schooner 

 ' ' Academy. ' ' This expedition returned to San Francisco on November 

 29, 1906, after an absence of seventeen months, bringing large collec- 

 tions of plants, fossil and recent shells, insects, reptiles, birds, and 

 mammals, which formed the nucleus of a new museum. These collec- 

 tions have been extensively added to by the academy's collectors 

 on the Pacific coast and in the Orient. 



The research collections of the academy now contain over 70,000 

 fossil and recent shells; large series of insects from the Galapagos 

 Islands, the Aleutian Islands, and the Orient; over 12,000 reptiles, 

 chiefly from the Galapagos Islands, China, Japan, Formosa, and the 

 Philippine Islands; 17,000 birds, over half of which are water birds, 

 including more than 1800 specimens of albatrosses and petrels. 



For an exhibition collection, elaborate habitat groups of the 

 larger mammals of the Pacific coast are being prepared by Mr. John 

 Rowley. 



