Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin. 1978, Vol. 77 n. 3. In 8vo, original wrappers, pp. 89-1473. Contain 10 contributions: 'Peter Left Because . . .': A Comparative Study of Family Oral Histories by Nancy Thym; Residual Effects of Summer Irrigation on Mojave Desert Annuals by Hyrun B. Johnson, Frank C. Vasek, and Terry Yonkers; Relict Survival of the Sea Otter in Central California and Evidence of Its Recent Redispersal South of Point Conception by Stephen Leatherwood, Linda J. Harrington-Coulombe, and Carl L. Hubbs; The Subspecific Status of Onychomys torridus clarus Hollister 1913 (Rodentia: Cricetidae) by John O. Matson and Richard D. Friesen; Pollination Ecology of Chlorogalum pomeridianum (D.C.) Kunth. (Liliaceae) by Robert E. Stockhouse II and Harrington Wells; Additional Notes on the Western Conenose, Triatoma p. protracta (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae), as a Carrier of Chagas' Trypanosome by Sherwin F. Wood and Fae D. Wood; Branchiate Dorvilleidae (Polychaeta) from the N

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