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Excerpt from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 1926-27, Vol. 15 These islands are the most isolated group on the coast and a study of their fauna and ora and a comparison with the species found on the main land, should enable us to arrive at the origin of the island fauna and ora, and their relationships to the mainland. The Academy is very anxious to send an expedition to these islands to make a comprehensive and thorough biological and geological survey of them. Special attention would be given to the botany, land mollusks, insects, reptiles, birds and mammals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.