22 May 04

Classics Of California Natural History

It’s nice when one finds seminal publications online. Here are links to scans of a couple of classic publications of California natural history.

First, a PDF of Joseph Grinnell and Alden Miller’s 1944 book The Distribution of the Birds of California is available here (warning: 40 Mb download). This site has scans of a number of other publications of Pacific Coast ornithological interest, including Jean Linsdale’s 1937 The Natural History of Magpies.

Second, Willis Linn Jepson’s multi-volume but never completed A Flora of California (1909 onwards) is available as GIF scans through a collaboration between the University & Jepson Herbaria and the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project.

Posted by at 09:31 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. Kathleen and I visited the wine country last year to celebrate our anniversary. In between tastings, we lifted our binoculars. I had a wonderful half-hour with some acorn woodpeckers, which we never see here in Florida.

    — Denny    23. May 2004, 06:08    Link

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