[S-C] SFNHS January 21 and 31

[Margaret Goodale]

San Francisco Natural History Series
at the Randall Museum
presents
Josiah Clark

Parks as Urban Islands: Case studies in San Francisco Island  
Biogeography

Where specks of Franciscan habitat escaped destruction, isolated  
populations
of creatures persisted into the future as human civilization grew up  
around
them. Over the years many of San Francisco's original animals have  
disapeared
but some continue to beat the odds, continuing to live out ancient  
ways of life
in a modern and ever more complicated world. We will unravel the  
plight of San
Francisco's last California Quail, Western Screech Owls, Pacific  
Chorus Frogs
and Brush Rabbits among others.  Explore what is and is not being  
done to stop
this recent string of local extinctions that will forever change San
Francisco's exceptionally rich natural history.

Thursday, January 21 at 7:30 PM
Randall Museum

199 Museum Way
San Francisco
554-9600

ALSO

Wednesday, January 31 at 7:30 PM

Kim Todd, author of Tinkering with Eden, will present her new book  
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis.

Before Darwin, before Audubon, there was Maria Sibella Merian who, in  
1699, set out from Germany to study insect metamorphosis in the New  
World.  Kim Todd explores the boldness and vision of this remarkable  
seventeenth century woman.