PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Fourth Series 



Vol. IX. No. 3, pp. 69-121 July 12, 1919 



III 



NOTES ON MAMMALS COLLECTED PRINCIPALLY 



IN WASHINGTON AND CALIFORNIA BETWEEN 



THE YEARS 1853 AND 1874 BY DR. 



JAMES GRAHAM COOPER 



BY 



Walter P. Taylor 



U. S. Biological Survey 



Introduction and Acknowledgments 



Dr. James Graham Cooper was one of the most active stu- 

 dents of birds and mammals on the Pacific Coast in the middle 

 nineteenth century. In view of the importance of his pioneer 

 work in mammalogy, it has seemed desirable to list all the west 

 coast specimens of mammals collected by him which are still 

 extant and accessible, to note their condition, and to determine, 

 so far as possible, their systematic status according to current 

 conceptions. 



The 114 specimens examined are distributed as follows: in 

 the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley, California, 57; in the United States National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C, 45 ; and in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, 12. 



Jvdy 12, 1919 





