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Scholarly Publications

Contributions in Science and Science Series

Working with a committee of staff scholars and outside specialists, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes Contributions in Science — reports of original research in systematics and evolution — and Science Series — long articles and collections of papers on natural history topics. Authors considering our journals for their manuscripts should first consult our submission procedures and instructions for authors.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Ants of Nevada, The
• British Orders, Decorations and Medals
• Insects of the Los Angeles Basin
• Rancho La Brea Death Trap and Treasure Trove

Baja California Travel Series

Baja California Travel Series, this publication presents accounts of travel and exploration in Baja California covering the history of the peninsula. The series was initiated in 1965 by Glen Dawson, of Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles, and Edwin H. Carpenter, of the Huntington Library in San Marino. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County published two books in the Series in association with Dawson's Book Shop

Volumes 1-51 may be ordered through Dawson's Book Shop, 535 North Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90004; Volumes 46 and 51 are also available through the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

• Volume 46, The 1769 Transit of Venus
• Volume 51, Modest Fortunes

Scholarly Publications

Scholarly Series, miscellaneous series of technical papers and monographs describing original research in the life and earth sciences.

• SS 24, Marine Shells of Southern California
• SS 28, The Polychaete Worms
• SS 30, Natural History of Native Fishes in the Death Valley System
• SS 31, Treasures of the Tar Pits
• SS 32, Papers on the Systematics of Gadiform Fishes
• SS 33, Papers on Fossil Rodents
• SS 34, The California Chaparral: Paradigms Reexamined
• SS 35, Systematic Revision...of Trochacean Gastropods
• SS 36, Papers in Avian Paleontology
• SS 37, Rancho La Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life
• SS 38, Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly
• SS 39, An Updated Classification of Recent Crustacea (, 1 MB)
• SS 40, The Paleogene Mammalian Fauna of Santa Rosa, Amazonian Peru (, 6 MB)
• SS 41, Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Western and Southern North America, Contributions in Honor of David P. Whistler (, 34 MB)

Publications (Available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format)

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