Archive for November 2023

Alright #fossilsofLA friends and family, today is #fossilfriday and it’s also my last day working at @nhmla and the #LACMIP collection  For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Katy, assistant collections manager and face behind this account. I’ll be passing social media duties on to the rest of the team, so you’ll still…

Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 22, no. 1, p. 71-73, January 1992  KENNETH L. FINGER Chevron Oil Field Research Company, P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446 In a general sense, foraminiferal micropaleontology can be viewed as a triad of taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and pa- leoecology. The first two parts began centuries apart with Linnaeus and…

Once in a great while a stone is discovered which possesses the essential requirements for preciousness, those being; scarcity, beauty, and hardness, plus a fourth dimension, historical significance. In the 1969-1970 period such a stone was unearthed during the excavation for the Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) Plaza at 6th and Flower Streets, Los Angeles, California. The…

WASHINGTONApril 19, 1983 Dear Dr. Natland: I want to express my sincere gratitude for your kindness in donating to the United States the impressive handcrafted table which Deputy Mayor Ray Remy presented on behalf of Mayor Tom Bradley as a gift from the City of Los Angeles. Your workmanship is outstanding, and I was interested…