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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1854-2010 
In 1897, the Academy’s officers and trustees 
decided to sectionalize parts of the Proceedings , and 
so initiated series 3, with sections on Botany, 
Geology, Mathematics and Physics, and Zoology. 
Series 3 of the Proceedings continued until April 
1906 when disaster struck the San Francisco region, 
the devastating 18 April 1906 earthquake and ensuing 
fire that were to leave the Academy in shambles with 
the loss of its precious collections, its library, and its 
magnificant museum. Recovery was slow, but less 
than two years later, in December 1907, publication 
of the fourth series of the Proceedings was begun 
with a paper by John Van Denburgh describing four 
new races of gigantic land tortoises based on materi¬ 
als brought back by the Academy’s 18-month long 
1905-1906 Galapagos Expedition, one of the most 
successful expeditions ever launched by a non-gov¬ 
ernment institution. Van Denburgh’s contribution was 
followed in reasonably quick succession by other 
reports on the Galapagos collections, on birds by 
Edward Gifford, also Leverett Loomis and Rollo 
Beck; on plants by Alban Stewart; insects by Francis 
Williams, William Wheeler, Morgan Hebard, and oth¬ 
ers; mollusks by William Healey Dali; and more on 
tortoises and other reptiles by John Van Denburgh 
and Joseph Slevin. 
Since 1907, the Academy has continued to produce a steady stream of issues of the Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Sciences, at this time (2010), volume 61 of the fourth series, as well as 158 volumes of 
Occasional Papers, since 1890, and 28 Memoirs, since 1868. It must be noted that the distinction between what 
was published as an Occasional Paper or Memoir blurred over time so that longer papers, whether anthologies 
or monographs, would be assigned to be published in either series, although the Occasional Papers across the 
years clearly dominated. 
Penultimately, two additional quasi-Academy publications deserve note, the Leaflets of Western Botany 
and Myia. The former was founded by Alice Eastwood and John Thomas Howell, both curators in the 
Academy’s Department of Botany, in 1932 and continued in publication until 1966 when Howell retired 
(Eastwood preceeded Howell in retirement by more than a decade). Leaflets served as an outlet for numerous 
short papers in botany. 
Myia was initiated by Paul Henri Amaud, Jr., at the time a curator in the Academy’s Department of 
Entomology. During Arnaud’s tenure as curator, seven volumes were published. Following Arnaud’s retire¬ 
ment, he arranged for continuation of the series by another institution. Nonetheless, we consider the first seven 
volumes as quasi-Academy publications and like the Leaflets, have included citations from both in this cata¬ 
log. 
The history of the Academy’s scientific publications program to 2010 is summarized in Table 1. During 
the 156 years of publication, more than 4000 titles were published and 9345 new taxa of animals and plants 
described therein (Fig.l shows the rate at which new taxa were described for the entire period 1854 to 2010 
Figures (left) 
E. Title page of Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 1, 1884. Inset: Mary Katharine Curran, editor of the Bulletin. 
F. Notice printed on the obverse side of the title page relating to the disposition of type specimens of new taxa described in the Bulletin. 
G. Title page of Zoe, a journal founded by Townshend Stith Brandegee (top inset), Mary Katharine Curran Brandegee (center inset), 
and Harvey Willson Harkness (bottom inset). 
H. Cover page of Leaflets of Western Botany, vol. 1, no. 1 (16 January 1932). Insets: Alice Eastwood (left) and John Thomas Howell 
(right). 
I. (above). Title page of Myia, founded by Paul Henri Amaud, Jr. (inset). 
MYIA 
Volume 1 
A CATALOG OF THE TYPES OF DIPTERA 
IN THE COLLECTION OF 
THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
By 
Paul H. Arnaud, Jr. 
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