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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Number 158 
in a 6-page signature [47-52] dated April 30. However, 
the presentation appeared in the The Pacific, a newspa¬ 
per published in San Francisco, on 4 May 1855. 
Ordinarily, the newspaper columns were printed first 
and then rearranged and printed in a signature in 
Proceedings style following their publication in the 
newspaper. Whatever the case, the taxon can assuredly 
be dated as of 4 May 1855. 
The article was reprinted in 1873 (p. 46-47) in what has 
become known as the “Second edition, ” in which the 
original text was reset so that there is some discrepancy 
in pagination with the original publication (see com¬ 
ments by R.E.C Steams, 1873, Prefatory Note to This 
Editon. PCAS, 2nd ed., 1:[unnumbered p. 1]).) 
[156] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Remarks on the 
ground mole]. Proceedings of the California Academy 
of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(1):54. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 21 May. 
Two pages, 53-54, are undated but they must have been 
printed in May because they are followed by a signature 
dated May, 1855.) 
[157] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [On a new species of 
fish of the genus Apodichthys ]. Proceedings of the Cali¬ 
fornia Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, l(l):55-56. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held on 21 May and 
printed shortly thereafter, during the month of May.) 
[158] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [On a new fish of the 
genus Cebidichthys ]. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, l(l):58-59. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 4 June. Page 58 
is undated but it is sandwiched in between pages 55-56, 
dated May, 1855, and 59, which is dated July 1855) 
[159] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Remarks on the skull 
of a sea lion from the Farallon Islands], Proceedings of 
the California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(1): 
61. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 25 June 1855; 
pages 60-61 were printed sometime in July 1855.) 
[160] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [A new scomberoid 
fish]. Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural 
Sciences, ser. 1, l(l):62-63. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held on 2 July; 
pages 62-63 were printed sometime in July 1855.) 
[161] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Description of a new 
species of whiting]. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(1):64. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 16 July and 
printed in August.) 
[162] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Description of a fish 
representing a type, entirely new to our waters]. 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural 
Sciences, ser. 1, l(l):66-67. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held on 6 August 
1855 and printed in August and/or September.) 
[163] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Remarks on the 
Echinodermata of the coast of California], Proceedings 
of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 
1 ( 1 ): 68 . 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 20 August 1855 
and printed in September.) 
[164] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [On a new species of 
cramp fish, Torpedo ]. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(1):70-71. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 10 September 
1855 and printed sometime later in September.) 
[165] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Remarks on and 
description of a shark of a new generic type]. Proceed¬ 
ings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 
1, l(l):72-73. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 8 October 1855 
and printed sometime in November.) 
[166] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Comments on some 
fish referred to the genera Hemilepidotus or Scorpaen- 
ichthys, with description of a new genus and species]. 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sci¬ 
ences, ser. 1, l(l):75-77. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held on 24 Decem¬ 
ber 1855 and published by year’s end on 31 December.) 
[167] Ayres, William Orville. 1855. [Remarks on a collec¬ 
tion of fishes made by Lieut. W.P. Trowbridge at or near 
Cape Flattery, W.T.]. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(1):75. 
[168] Ayres, William Orville. 1856. [Description of a new 
species of mackerel]. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 1(2):92. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 20 October 
1856. Also reprinted in 1873 in reset type in the 2nd [or 
reprint] ed. of PCANS, ser. 1, vol.l, pp. 101-102 [q.v.]) 
[169] Ayres, William Orville. 1859. [On new fishes of this 
[California] coast]. Proceedings of the California Acad¬ 
emy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 2:25-32. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 17 October 
1859. Outline figures for the new species were pub¬ 
lished in 1860[see pp. 53-59].) 
[170] Ayres, William Orville. 1860. [Description of a new 
genus to accommodate Brosmius marginatus Ayres, 
1854], Proceedings of the California Academy of 
Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 2:52-59. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 2 July 1860.) 
[171] Ayres, William Orville. 1860. [Outline figures of 
species of fish described in a paper read before the 
Academy on October 17th, 1859], Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 2:53-59, 
figs. 4-10. 
(These outline figures are meant to accompany Ayres’ 
earlier descriptions of new species (see Ayres, 1859, 
pp. 25-32).) 
[172] Ayres, William Orville. 1860. [Descriptions of new 
fishes]. Proceedings of the California Academy of 
Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 2:60-64, figs. 11-12. 
(Presented at the Academy meeting held 6 August 
1860. ) 
