Southern California Academy of Sciences

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Southern California Academy of Sciences had its beginnings in 1891 when some twenty persons interested in scientific lore and research met in a small hall in Los Angeles and formed the Southern California Science Association, subsequently reorganized to the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Publications regarding specimens collected during the Los Angeles County Museum Channel Islands Biological Survey (1939-1941), an interdisciplinary research survey proposed by Don Meadows in 1938 to the directors of the Los Angeles Museum, appeared irregularly in Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletins from 1939 to 1962, and today the specimens collected continue to serve scientists.

» Joseph Cook Nevin; Abbot Kinney



  • 1902. WILLIAMSON, Mrs. M. Burton Catalogue of Indian Relics on Santa Catalina Island in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of SciencesI, 38; II. 60; III, 149
  • 1902. YATES, Lorenzo Gordin Prehistoric California in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences l(7):81-86, July 1, 1902 and l(8):97-100, August 1, 1902 and l(9):113-118, November 1, 1902
  • 1903. YATES, Lorenzo Gordin Prehistoric Fauna of Californiain Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 2(8):101 November 1903
  • 1903 HASSE, Hermann Edward Contributions to the Lichen-flora of the Californian Coast Islands in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 2(2):23-26, February 1904
  • 1904. TRASK, Luella Blanche Flora of San Clemente Island in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 3(5):76-78
  • 1904. TRASK, Luella Blanche Flora of San Clemente Island II on Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 3(6):90-95
  • 1904. TRASK, Luella Blanche Fossil Peak, Santa Catalina Island in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 3(8):140
  • 1932. HOFFMANN, Ralph Notes on the Flora of the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara, California in Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin. XXXI, Pt. 2, I, (46-60) *1932 and v. XXXI, Pt. 3, II (101-120)
  • 1940. Dunkle, M. B. Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands biological survey. 7. Revision of the Channel Islands Forms of Cercocarpus. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 39(part 1):1-3, January-April 1940
[original in SCIF archives]


  • 1940. Dunkle, M. B. Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands biological survey. 8. Ferns of the Channel Islands Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 39(part 1):3-5, January-April 1940
[original in SCIF archives]


  • 1940. Dunkle, M. B. Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands biological survey. 12. New Plants from the Channel Islands Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 39 (part 2):175-178, May-August 1940
  • 1942. DUNKLE, Meryl Byron Contributions from the Los Angeles Museum Channel Islands biological survey, number 27. Flora of the Channel Islands National Monument [Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands] in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 41(3):125-137
  • 1980 POWELL, Jerry A. Five insects believed to be newly established or recolonized on Santa Cruz Island, California in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 79(3):97-108 December



In the News~

January 3, 1892 [LAH]: “Justice P. E. King of Burbank, on a recent trip to San Clemente Island, secured a curiosity, which has been named "What-is-it?". Mr. King thinks it is a petrified ostrich egg. Others think it is a petrified rock egg; others that it is a geode, and so on. Mr. King presented it to the Southern California Science Association, and Dr. B. H. Alter has the "What-is-it?" in his custody for the society.”


August 7, 1904 [LAT]: “The Southern California Academy of Sciences is publishing a series of articles by Mrs. M. Burton Williamson on the Indian relics found on Santa Catalina Island, many of which are in the collections at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C., and the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.”

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