http://www.calacademy.org/flyonthewall/?p=46 Quirky Academy news and behind-the-scenes reports Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.calacademy.org/flyonthewall/?p=46&cpage=1#comment-499 Lissa Coleman Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:03:41 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/flyonthewall/?p=46#comment-499 As opening day approaches, wishing you and all staff congratulations on this huge undertaking, as the final days of preparation unfold.
I am posting a comment on this area because some years back–7 ? 8?= my dad spent a wonderful afternoon as guest of curators/staff at the Academy. In his late 80′s at the time, my dad, Bill Coleman, was the only surviving member of early Galapagos expeditions (1930′s} led by Templeton Crocker on the yacht Zaca. They collected many of the specimens long housed at the Academy; I hope some are still intact now! My dad was still able to recall details about studies they’d done on marine iguanas. Dad lived to be 93, and I know he would have been as thrilled as my family is to see the new Academy this year.

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