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Doctor Garnot had a severe attack of dysentery and was sent back on the Castle Forbes with some of the specimens collected in South America and the Pacific. The specimens were lost when the ship was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in July 1824. Garnot and Lesson wrote the zoological section of the voyage's report.
Through the lobbying efforts of Jeremiah N. Reynolds, [a] the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution on May 21, 1828, requesting President John Quincy Adams to send a ship to explore the Pacific. Adams was keen on the resolution and ordered his Secretary of the Navy to ready a ship, the Peacock.
Pacific Biological Laboratories, abbreviated PBL, was a biological supply house that sold preserved animals and prepared specimen microscope slides, many of which were of maritime aquatic species, to schools, museums, and research institutions.
The port of San Francisco boomed and expanded very rapidly to a California state census population of about 32,000 in 1852 (San Francisco—the largest city in the state—U.S. California Census of 1850 was burned in one of the frequent fires in San Francisco [60]).
A scientific collection is a collection of items that are preserved, catalogued, and managed for the purpose of scientific study. [1]Scientific collections dealing specifically with organisms plants, fungi, animals, insects and their remains, may also be called natural history collections or biological collections. [2]
List of years in the United States by state or territory: The following is list of events of the year 1850 in California. Incumbents. Governor: Peter ...
On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and into the city's famous fog.
California joined the Union as a free state via the Compromise of 1850. By the end of the 19th century, California was still largely rural and agricultural , with a population of about 1.4 million. Pre-Columbian history (c. 13,000 BC – 1530 AD)