Beschreibung
Octavo, [24cm/9.5 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.142-180, indexed. In all 320 birds are listed. In the early 1900s, Frank Stephenswas an active member of the San Diego Society and an accomplished Pacific Coast mammalogist. In 1910, the Society hired his wife Kate Stephens as curator for its collections, wherein she assumed responsibility for the care and conservation of specimens. For eleven years, Kate and Frank collaborated to create the original museum exhibits and together they did much of the work expanding and caring for the collections. Due to Frank's poor hearing and reputation as a careless driver, Kate forbade her husband to make collecting trips alone. She traveled with Frank on many, if not all, of his collecting trips after they were married. During the trips she would assist as his secretary recording their travels and specimen collections. For two years (1927-28) she worked on the fossil shells of San Diego County in connection with a paleontological study conducted by the Society and under the direction of U.S. Grant IV and Frank Stephens. In 1936, after 30 years of service to the museum, Kate retired from her curatorial position. In all, she served as the Society's Curator of Collections, Assistant Director, Secretary, Librarian, and as Curator of Mollusks and Marine Invertebrates. The Museum'sBulletin(February 1936) claimed that "In fact, it can be truly said that were it not for the devotion of Mrs. Stephens and her husband, Frank Stephens, there may be no Natural History Museum in San Diego today."Kate once claimed that "Frank taught me all I know of Natural History as a science." In her own right, she possessed a considerable knowledge of general natural history with a focus on marine invertebrates. Kate was fully acquainted with living mollusks, both marine and non-marine and developed an expertise in the fossil field, not only of mollusks but also of invertebrate paleontology in general. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23198
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