MARINE MAMMALS BIBLIOGRAPHY

MARINE MAMMALS BIBLIOGRAPHY

• [1874]. C. M. Scammon. “The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America and the American Whale Fishery.” Facsimile edition of the 1874 first edition. Riverside: Manessier Publishing Co., 1969.

[facsimile edition in SCIF archives]

• [1874]. 1968. C. M. Scammon. The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America, together with an account of the American Whale Fishery. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Reprint of the original 1864 first edition. Wraps. Some pages detached.

[reprint in SCIF archives]

• C. M. Scammon. Landauer, Lyndall Baker. “Scammon Beyond the Lagoon: A Biography of Charles Melville Scammon.” San Francisco: Associates of the J. Porter Shaw Library, (1986). First edition in dust jacket.

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1908. Lydekker, R. Sea Elephants for the British Museum London Field, III, p. 276, February 15. A brief general account of the species based on specimens secured on Guadalupe Island, by Harris in May, 1907.

• 1908. Rothschild, Hon. Walter. Mirounga angustirostris (Gill). Novitates Zooligicae XV, pp. 393-394, Plates I-VIII, November 18. Contains a brief account of this sea elephant based on the series of seven specimens secured for Tring Museum by Charles Harris at Guadalupe Island, June 2-17, 1907, accompanied by reproductions of photographs of the living animals taken by Harris.

• 1909. Harris, Charles Miller. A Cruise After Sea Elephants Pacific Monthly 21:4 (331-339) April, 1909

• 1911. Osburn, Raymond C. California Elephant Seals at the New York Aquarium Zoological Society Bulletin 45:759-762

“...These facts lend the greatest interest to the capture of six young specimens by the expedition from the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society, now working off Lower California under the direction of Dr. Townsend. These specimens were crated separately and shipped by express from San Diego. They arrived at the New York Aquarium on March 13, apparently none the worse for their six days' trip... ”

• 1911. Newly Discovered Elephant Seals Forest and Stream 76:652, April 29, 1911

• 1911 Dickerson, Mary C. Rare Elephant Seals for the Museum American Museum Journal 11(4):109-112, April 1911

• 1912. Townsend, C. H. The Elephant Seal is Not Extinct The Century Magazine, 84(2):205-211 June 12, 1912

• 1912. Townsend, C. H. The Northern Elephant Seal Zoologica 1(8):159-173, 1912

Contains an account of the rediscovery of a herd of these animals on Guadalupe Island.

[SIGNED original in SCIF archives]

• 1913. Townsend, C. H. The Elephant Seals of Guadalupe island in Grinnell, George Bird. Hunting at High Altitudes NY: Harper, (1913), p. 406-420

• 1919. Gordon, P. R. Filming the Sea Elephant Wild World Magazine 43(258):485-491 October, 1919.

How the author was led to invest money and take part in an expedition to secure moving pictures of the sea elephant. Although luck favored them and striking films were secured, the investors in the enterprise failed to reap the promised reward. "The story is true in all details," writes the Author, "though for obvious reasons the names given are fictitious."

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1921. Anthony, A. W. The Elephant Seal off Santa Cruz Island Journal of Mammalogy 2(2):112-113, May 1921

• 1924. Anthony, A. W. Notes on the Present Status of the Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga Journal of Mammalogy 5(3):145-152, Aug., 1924

• 1924. Townsend, Charles H. The Northern Elephant Seal and the Guadalupe Fur Seal Natural History 27(5):567-577, 619-621 September-October 1924

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1924. Huey, Laurence M. A Trip to Guadalupe, Isle of My Boyhood Dreams Natural History 24:5 (579-621) September-October 1924

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1941. Williams, Woodbridge Jumbo of the deep [San Miguel Island elephant seals] Natural History 48(3):144-149 October, 1941

• 1952. Bartholomew, George A., Jr. and Carl Hubbs Winter populations of pinnipeds about Guadalupe, San Benito, and Cedros islands, Baja California. Journal of Mammalogy 33:160-171, 1952

• 1955. Allanson, Al. Sea Otters on San Miguel Island Pacific Discovery 8(3):24-25 May June 1955

[copy in SCIF archives]

• 1965 Rice, Dale W., Karl W. Kenyon and Dale Lluch B. Pinniped populations at Islas Guadalupe, San Benito, and Cedros, Baja California, in 1965 Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 14(7):73-84, December 28, 1965

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1969. Resolution of protection for San Miguel Island Pinnipeds Journal of Mammalogy 50(4):910, November 1969

• 1969. Peterson, Richard S. and Burney J. LeBoeuf Fur Seals in California Pacific Discovery 22(3):12-15, May-June 1969

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1983. LeBoeuf, Burney J. and Richard S. Condit The High Cost of Living on the Beach (Elephant Seals of Año Nuevo Island) Pacific Discovery 36(3):12-14, July-September 1983

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1975. LeBoeuf, Burney J., Countryman, Donald A., and C. L. Hubbs Records of Elephant Seals, Mirounga angustirostrus, on Los Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico, with recent analyses of the breeding population San Diego Society of Natural History Transactions 18(1):301-312, August 15, 1975

[original in SCIF archives; stapled separate]

• 1990. Vaughan, Thomas and Bill Holm. Soft Gold. The Fur Trade & Cultural Exchange on the Northwest Coast of America Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, (1990). Revised edition in wraps.

[original in SCIF archives]