CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

in San Francisco, oldest scientific institution in the western United States (incorporated 1853). The academy's complex of buildings is situated in Golden Gate Park. It includes a natural-history museum, the Steinhart Aquarium with more than 10,000 specimens, a planetarium, a building displaying African wildlife, and a wing with tableaus showing the various cultures of the world. In addition to its displays of mammals and birds, the natural-history museum has undisplayed research collections of reptiles, birds, and mammals and a research library (more than 85,000 volumes). The vast collection of more than 3.5 million mounted insects in the department of entomology is second only to that of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Publications include the magazine Pacific Discovery. Additional reading Federal Writers' Project, California: A Guide to the Golden State (1939, reprinted as The WPA Guide to California, 1984), also available in a revised edition edited by Harry Hansen (1967), is of value for its detail, but its accuracy is variable. James D. Hart, A Companion to California, new ed., rev. and expanded (1987), includes entries on all aspects of the state. Geography and landscape are the subject of David W. Lantis, Rodney Steiner, and Arthur E. Karinen, California: Land of Contrast, rev. 3rd ed. (1981); Crane S. Miller and Richard S. Hyslop, California: The Geography of Diversity (1983); and Mary Hill, California Landscape: Origin and Evolution (1984). Warren A. Beck and Ynez D. Haase, Historical Atlas of California (1974); Michael W. Donley et al., Atlas of California (1979); William L. Kahrl, The California Water Atlas (1979); David Hornbeck et al., California Patterns: A Geographical and Historical Atlas (1983); and DeLorme Mapping Company, Northern California Atlas & Gazetteer, 4th ed. (1998), and Southern & Central California Atlas & Gazetteer, 4th ed. (1998), provide a wealth of geographic, demographic, and economic data. Erwin G. Gudde, California Place Names, 4th ed., rev. and enlarged (1998), combines geography and local history. Cultural history is chronicled in the series by Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream (1973 ); in Carey McWilliams, Southern California Country (1946, reissued as Southern California, 1979); and in Neil Morgan, The California Syndrome (1969). A still outstanding work on immigration to California is Mary Roberts Coolidge, Chinese Immigration (1909, reprinted 1969). The problems of the Japanese in California are addressed in Roger Daniels, The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California, and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion (1962, reprinted 1980).Histories include David Lavender, California: A Bicentennial History (1976); John W. Caughey and Norris Hundley, Jr., California: History of a Remarkable State, 4th ed. (1982); Walton Bean and James J. Rawls, California: An Interpretive History, 5th ed. (1988); and Andrew Rolle, California, 4th ed. (1987). Current research is published in California History (quarterly). Neil Morgan