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1948: Volume 1
#1 premier issue
#2 gold, men, and fish
#3 Aldo S. Leopold on clear water
#4 California's frozen water supply
#5 redwoods around the Pacific
#6 marine basins

1949: Volume 2
#1 sold out
#2 brickbats from space
#3 sold out
#4 bamboo literacy in Mindoro
#5 rainbow in the canyon
#6 bringing them back alive

1950: Volume 3
#1 William Beebe on hummingbirds
#2 where the buffalo roamed
#3 Philippines
#4 turtle hunters of Baja
#5 night shift in a Sierra meadow
#6 bringing them back to life

1951: Volume 4
#1 standing stones of Chiricahua
#2 desert ironwood
#3 bears in Yellowstone
#4 elephant seals make a comeback
#5 Foucault's pendulum
#6 tarantula

1952: Volume 5
#1 California's Bishop pines
#2 desert wildflowers, Thomas H. Kearney
#3 Huckleberry pilgrimage
#4 Steller's sea lion
#5 exploring the Pacific Ocean
#6 stars and Morrison Planetarium

1953: Volume 6
#1 Baja California, seafaring bats, Seri Indians
#2 Academy centennial
#3 special issue: Alaska
#4 California's first fossil bird
#5 desert pavement art
#6 return of the elk

1954: Volume 7
#1 vampire bats, four-eyed fishes
#2 birds of the desert spring
#3 cave science
#4 New Zealand
#5 beachcombing in the Rockies
#6 poisonous fish

1955: Volume 8
#1 parks, plans, and people
#2 saguaro cactus
#3 Joshua Tree National Monument
#4 world's largest meteor crater
#5 Montezuma's zoo
#6 bats

1956: Volume 9
#1 Western wildflowers hunting
#2 deserts
#3 dinosaur dig
#4 padres, peppers, and palms
#5 Australia
#6 Guadelupe fur seals

1957: Volume 10
#1 Chia: food from America's past
#2 amber, Alaska, and Chiapas
#3 Museum of International Folk Art
#4 Antarctica
#5 Sierra San Pedro Martir
#6 changing shoreline of San Francisco Bay

1958: Volume 11
#1 studying tree rings
#2 Drake's Cove
#3 frozen silence: Arctic and Antarctica
#4 stone ruins and conservation
#5 Far East faces
#6 William Gambel

1959: Volume 12
#1 doorstep botany in San Francisco
#2 seashore science
#3 search for the Buenaventura
#4 Rio Grande,
#5 tsunamis
#6 Galápagos

1960: Volume 13
#1 Vanikoro
#2 house of the Scotch Paisano
#3 predicting moon exploration
#4 canoes, campfires, and carbon 14
#5 Thailand
#6 wild palms

1961: Volume 14
#1 oceanography
#2 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
#3 Mission San Xavier del Bac
#4 climate, landscape and man
#5 Hawaiian peoples, art, fauna, flora
#6 bristlecone pines

1962: Volume 15
#1 mystery of the Marianas' latte stones
#2 California's hidden mountains
#3 penguins underground
#4 geology of Arches National Monument
#5 frigate birds
#6 archeology before construction

1963: Volume 16
#1 Coral Sea
#2 Eskimo ivory carvings
#3 Steinhart Aquarium special
#4 celestial navigation in the South Pacific islands
#5 South Dakota's badlands
#6 kangaroo rats

1964: Volume 17
#1 James Blake: pioneer winemaker
#2 yuccas
#3 Abrolhos Islands of Australia
#4 Jefferson the scientist
#5 Cochise
#6 Edward Palmer, plantsman of the West

1966: Volume 19
#1 great white sharks
#2 sold out
#3 if Earth hits a planetoid
#4 land passage to California
#5 Gulf of California expedition
#6 grizzly

1967: Volume 20
#1 Amazon dolphins
#2 desert trees
#3 The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964
#4 Arizona's giant amphibians
#5 ocelot
#6 cochineal beetles and the Aztecs

1968: Volume 21
#1 Robinson Crusoe's island
#2 coconut palms
#3 seahorses
#4 hedgehogs
#5 diatoms, traditional Philippines
#6 African termites

1969: Volume 22
#1 White Sands National Monument
#2 sold out
#3 seals
#4 Marmes Man rescue
#5 Captain Scammon
#6 aquatic mammals at Steinhart Aquarium

1970: Volume 23
#1 effects of DDT on eggshells
#2 Guadelupe Mountains National Park
#3 pingos
#4 Golden Gate Park
#5 volcano country in California
#6 in Darwin's footsteps

1971: Volume 24
#1 Galápagos expeditions
#2 reptile collecting
#3 ravens
#4 echidnas
#5 oil, wildlife and people
#6 Mexico's Revillagigedos Islands

1972: Volume 25
#1 geckos
#2 San Francisco Bay: geology, fauna and flora
#3 truffles
#4 Africa and the Academy
#5 dinosaurs come to the Academy
#6 pikas

1973: Volume 26
#1 immigrant weeds
#2 bunchgrass prairie, searching for the coelacanth
#3 the first aquarium
#4 marijuana: fiber, oil, medicine, and hallucinogen
#5 red wolf
#6 whale tagging

1974: Volume 27
#1 idrioddities
#2 suburban raccoons
#3 oaks, diving into the past
#4 American bighorn
#5 acorn woodpeckers
#6 cleaner fishes

1975: Volume 28
#1 sold out
#2 relict bog
#3 the ostrich
#4 coral reef creatures
#5 killer whale songs
#6 singing with killer whales

1976: Volume 29
#1 tuna fishing vs. dolphins
#2 chaparral under threat
#3 wildlife of Alcatraz
#4 atomics at amchitka
#5 frogs and toads
#6 mask dances of Mexico

1977: Volume 30
#1 Chumash Indians
#2 tarantula hawks
#3 Steinhart fish roundabout
#4 nesting avocets
#5 weeds
#6 staircase through time

1978: Volume 31
#1 return of the tule elk
#2 tidal mudflats
#3 Mars exploration
#4 Peru: Inca culture, ceramics, textiles, agriculture, astronomy
#5 Helen Lillis ranch gift
#6 California's market squid

1979: Volume 32
#1 Salt Point State Park
#2 weather aatellites
#3 Anasazi
#4 Francis Drake in California
#5 geysers, geothermal energy, Yellowstone
#6 parasitic wildflowers

1980: Volume 33
#1 Darwin's finches
#2 gorillas
#3 Native Americans: rock art, culture, Kachina dolls
#4 volcano awakes in the Galapagos
#5 ecology of newly-discovered San Francisco
#6 journey through Turkestan

1981: Volume 34
#1 Bodie: California ghost town
#2 a great white shark at the Academy, Mammoth Hot Springs
#3 whale museum of Friday Harbor
#4 the lion in Monterey County
#5 telling time by the sun and stars
#6 Sir Francis Drake and California

1982: Volume 35
#1 pueblo plant foods
#2 underground desert toads
#3 Pitcairn Island
#4 why birds sing
#5 welwitschia plant
#6 traditional navigation in Oceania

1983: Volume 36
#1 tuatara
#2 Ohlone reed boat
#3 well-dressed birds
#4 earthquake dangers in California

Pacific Discovery became a quarterly publication at this time.

1984: Volume 37
#1 human ancestors, manatees
#2 prairie pimples
#3 locoweed
#4 sand dunes

1985: Volume 38
#1 monarch migration
#2 spotted owls
#3 California's oaks and grasses
#4 Gary Larson and The Far Side

1986: Volume 39
#1 America's big cats: mountain lions, cougars and jaguars
#2 Bay Area earthquakes from 1906 to the present
#3 California's Central Valley
#4 datura

1987: Volume 40
#1 death of a saguaro cactus
#2 saltwater crocodiles, Hawaiian volcanoes, island sinking
#3 birds of paradise
#4 Pacific Flyway

1988: Volume 41
#1 kelp forest
#2 coral reefs: evolution, sponges, threats
#4 sliding toward extinction

1989: Volume 42
#1 walrus
#2 Chew Kee Store from pioneer California
#3 sunset's green flash
#4 sandhill cranes

1990: Volume 43
#1 special issue: Mojave Desert
#2 tafoni, vernal pools
#3 California brown pelicans
#4 rattlesnakes

1991: Volume 44
#1 wetlands special
#2 orcas, gray wolves
#3 butterfly farming
#4 old growth, great white sharks

1992: Volume 45
#1 foods of the Americas
#2 golden lion tamarin
#3 lichens
#4 bioluminescence

1993: Volume 46
#1 California's water
#2 Marin's herons
#3 alien invasions
#4 Andy Goldsworthy

1994: Volume 47
#1 bears
#2 emerald cities, Critters in the 'Hood
#3 monarch migration, Artifical Life Evolves
#4 DNA in animal forensics, Living with Sharks

1995: Volume 48
#1 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Warm Sharks
#2 sequoias, a delight in Diatoms
#3 islands, cave paintings
#4 swimming sloths, doing it

1996: Volume 49
#1 whales
#2 frog parents
#3 forest nutrients
#4 poison oak, Otters galore!

1997: Volume 50
#1 Katherine Brandegee: pioneering female botanist, Message in a Meteor
#2 praying mantids
#3 aborigine dreamtime, Sprited Stones
#4 10 best natural history books

1998: Volume 51
#1 still wild in California
#2 sea turtles, swans return
#3 venomous animals, Mary Austin remembered
#4 Napa Valley, Madagascar entomology

1999: Volume 52
#1 kelp islands, Farallon Island egg poaching, rebuilding murre colonies
#2 tsunamis, native plant gardening, Galileo's far-seeing telescopes
#3 special issue: human ancestors
#4 mushroom hunters, extrasolar planets, Quechan culture

2000: Volume 53
#1 California 2020, coho salmon, return of the wolf, universe's end
#2 poisonous snakes, orchid hunters, Sierra bighorn
#3 Mono Lake, Yosemite's Bad Bears, Jared Diamond
#4 venomous sea creatures, star thistle, Long Valley caldera

2001: Volume 54
#1 expedition to Yunnan, China, life on Mars, David Brower
#2 life from space, inside wildflowers, winemaker's wetland
#3 phytoremediation, Chandra x-ray telescope
#4 hummingbirds, aspen colors, Jupiter as protector, Luis Baptista

2002: Volume 55
#1 Ansel Adams, Pluto may not be a planet, siblicide
#2 the skull king, Gulf of Guinea Islands, sunfish
#3 cloning species, Lahontan trout, recycled suns
#4 special issue: life in the dark

2003: Volume 56
#1 mantis shrimp, cosmic weather, reseeding San Francisco natives
#2 special issue: Academy's 150th anniversary
#3 rafflesia, Steller's sea cow, urban parrots
#4 Ice Age floods, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

2004: Volume 57
#1 rise of slime, condors make a comeback, pronghorn
#2 Clear Lake, animals swap sex for material gain, dodder
#3 San Francisco Bay salt ponds, mountain gorillas face human diseases
#4 California caviar, grizzly attack, life after fire, flying telescopes

2005: Volume 58
#1 seahorses, Craig Venter, army ants, poisonous birds
#2 inside the sun, beach wrack, universe's first light
#3 Chocolate Empires, The Chocolate Tree, The Myth of Sexual Selection
#4 Hotspots, Parasites Lost, Planetary Bonanza