Vertebrate Zoology formed the Grinnell Naturalists Society in 1940 to commemorate and continue the work of Joseph Grinnell. The Society was active from 1940 to 1952. The Bancroft Library maintains the organization's records and the collection is available for research purposes. The collection includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, newsletter file, questionnaire responses and account records. Selected published works Joseph Grinnell authored or co-authored 554 published works, beginning in 1893 until 1939. A small sample is given below. A complete list by year is in the biography written by Hilda Wood Grinnell (see Cited literature section). Joseph Grinnell co-authored several articles with his younger sister, Elizabeth J. Grinnell. Our Feathered Friends was published in 1898 and from 1900 to 1901, five articles were published in the regional magazine Land of Sunshine which was renamed Out West in 1901 and edited by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Books Birds of the Kotzebue sound region, Alaska The game birds of California Animal Life in the Yosemite 1924 Vertebrate Animals of Point Lobos Reserve 1936 Fur-bearing Mammals of California 1937 Journal articles "The Catalina Island Quail" The Auk July 23, 1906 "Wild Animal Life as a Product and as a Necessity of National Forests" The Journal of Forestry, XXII, December 1924 "Why We Need Wild Birds and Mammals" Scientific Monthly December 16, 1935 Other History of Pasadena by Hiram A. Reid 1895. Chapter titled "Our Native Birds". Travelers' Handbook to Southern California by George Wharton James, 1904. Chapter 20: "The Ornithologist in Southern California". Honors Two insects, four mammals, nine birds and one lizard were named after Joseph Grinnell. The Sitka kinglet (Regulus calendula grinnelli) was the first species named for Grinnell by ornithologist William Palmer in 1897. (Palmer was also a taxidermist and prepared the remains of the last passenger pigeon "Martha" when she died in 1914 at the Cincinnati, Ohio zoological gardens.) Joseph Grinnell was also the namesake of one of the Cal Falcons, "Grinnell", that bred at the Campanile from 2017-2022. The fish Synchiropus grinnelli, the Philippines dragonet, is a species of fish in the family Callionymidae, the dragonets. It is found in the Western Central Pacific from Philippines to Indonesia. It was named after him by Henry Weed Fowler. References Cited literature Grinnell, Joseph Gold Hunting in Alaska 1901 Grinnell, Joseph and Tracy Storer Animal Life in the Yosemite 1924 Grinnell, Joseph, Jean M. Linsdale and Joseph S. Dixon Fur-bearing Mammals of