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Article: Gems, waterfowl in Golden Gate Park. (San Francisco)
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- November 1, 1987
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Gems, waterfowl in Golden Gate Park
Precious stones, gold, and specimens of rare ore made the gem and mineral hall one of the most popular exhibits at the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, right from the academy's 1916 opening.
In 1960, modernization covered the hall's elegant windows and masked its classical beauty. Now, after a year's closure, the hall has reopened--its early elegance restored, its arched multipaned windows revealed, more specimens displayed.
More than a thousand of the academy's 15,000-item collection are on view. You can see a 465-pound amethyst geode, an awesome chunk of quartz, and four ...