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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
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Sequoia gigantea. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3([February]):234. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 18 
December 1865 and published in a 16-page signature 
dated February 1866.) 
[458] Blake, William Phipps. 1866. Ammonites in the aurif¬ 
erous slates of California. Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3 ([February]):23 5. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 18 
December 1865 and published in a 16-page signature 
dated February 1866.) 
[459] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Miscellaneous notes. 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural 
Sciences, ser. 1, 3([January]):289-291. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 20 
August 1866 and published in the third 8-page signature 
dated January 1867.) 
[460] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Mineralogical 
notices.— No. II. Proceedings of the California Acad¬ 
emy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3([January]):297-298. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 15 Octo¬ 
ber 1866 and published in the fourth 8-page signature 
dated January 1867.) 
[461] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Fossil fish in the Great 
Basin, Nevada. Proceedings of the California Academy 
of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3([January]):306-307. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 19 
November 1866 and published in the fifth 8-page signa¬ 
ture dated January 1867.) 
[462] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Notice of fossil ele¬ 
phants’ teeth from the Northwest Coast. Proceedings of 
the California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 
3([September]):325. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 18 
February 1867 and published in a 16-page signature 
dated September 1867.) 
[463] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Origin of the sub¬ 
merged forests in the Columbia River, Oregon. Proceed¬ 
ings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 
1, 3([September]):339-341. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 18 March 
1867 and published in the second of three signatures 
dated September 1867.) 
[464] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Note upon the brown 
coal formation of Washington Territory and Oregon. 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural 
Sciences, ser. 1, 3([September]):347. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 1 April 
1867 and published in the third of three signatures dated 
September 1867.) 
[465] Blake, William Phipps. 1867. Analysis of Mt. Diablo 
(California) coal. Proceedings of the California Acad¬ 
emy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3 ([September]): 348. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 1 April 
1867 and published in the third of three signatures dated 
September 1867.) 
[466] Blake, William Phipps. 1873. Note on the occurrence 
of telluret of silver in California. Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Natural Sciences, 2nd ed. 
[reprint of 1st ed.], ser. 1, 1(2[December]): 107-108. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 23 
February 1857 and published in 1857 in PCANS, pp.96- 
97 [q.v.]. It was reprinted in 1873 in reset type in the 2nd 
[or reprint] ed. of PCANS, ser. 1, vol.l, pp. 107-108.) 
[467] Blanchard, Sarah E. 1936. After a fire in California. 
Leaflets of Western Botany 1(17[7 February]): 197. 
[468] Blankinship, J. W., and Charles A. Keeler. 1892. On 
the natural history of the Farallon Islands. Zoe 
3(2[July]): 144-165, 1 fig. 
[469] Bloomer, Hiram George. 1868. On the scientific 
name of the “Big Trees ” Proceedings of the California 
Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 3([May]):399-401. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 16 
December 1867 and published in the third signature 
dated May 1868.) 
[470] Bock, Walter J. 1986. The arboreal origin of avian 
flight. In Kevin Padian, ed., The Origin of Birds and the 
Evolution of Flight. Memoirs of the California Academy 
of Sciences 8:57-72. 
[471] Bohlke, James E. 1970. A new species of the doradid 
catfish genus Leptodoras, with comments on related 
forms. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sci¬ 
ences, ser. 4, 38(3[31 December]):53-62, 3 figs., 1 table. 
[472] Bohart, Richard M. 1948. Contributions toward a 
knowledge of the insect fauna of Lower California. 
Hymenoptera: Eumeninae. Proceedings of the Califor¬ 
nia Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, 24(9[12 March]): 
313-336, 1 pi. 
[473] Bohart, Richard M. 1955. Systematic Entomology: 
Strepsiptera. Pages 566-569 in Edward L. Kessel, ed., A 
Century of Progress in the Natural Sciences, 1853-1953. 
Published in Celebration of the Centennial of the 
California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of 
Sciences, San Francisco, California. 
[474] Bolander, Henry N. 1862. [Comments on grasses 
found in the Academy’s Herbarium], Proceedings of the 
California Academy of Natural Sciences, ser. 1, 
2([December]): 177-178. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 21 April 
1862; pages 173 through 188 were printed sometime 
between Dec. 1862 (signature stamp 12 appears on 
p. 173) and Jan. 1863; the latter date is imprinted on 
page 189, which is also stamped as signature 13.) 
[475] Bolander, Henry N. 1862. Descriptions of plants. 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural 
Sciences, ser. 1, 2:179,181-182. 
(Paper presented at the Academy meeting held 7 July 
1862; pages 173 through 188 were printed sometime 
between Dec. 1862 (signature stamp 12 appears on 
p. 173) and Jan. 1863; the latter date is imprinted on 
page 189, which is also stamped as signature 13.) 
[476] Bolander, Henry N. 1863. Description of a new 
