Academy showed a close, come to that time, on the participation of women in science, passing a resolution in its first year of existence where members' highly approve the aid of women in every department of natural sciences, and invite cooperation. " This policy led to a number of women working in professional positions as botanical, entomólogas and other occupations during the nineteenth century, when opportunities for women in science were limited, and often the positions that existed were restricted to mere work of calculation and cataloging .
The first official museum of the Academy opened in 1874 at the intersection of California and Dupont (now Grant Avenue) streets in what is now Chinatown, and got up to 80,000 visitors per year. To accommodate its growing popularity, the Academy moved to a new, larger building on Market Street (Market Street) in 1891, funded by the legacy of James Lick, property tycoon inmuelbes nineteenth century San Francisco, businessman and philanthropist. However, only fifteen years later the installation of Market Street, a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which also brought down much of the library of the Academy and ruined specimen collections were destroyed. The vast destruction after the quake, conservatives Academy and employees were only able to recover a single carriage of materials, including minute books of the Academy, income files and 2,000 types of especímenes.6 Luckily an expedition to the Galapagos Islands (the first of several sponsored by the Academy) was already under way and returned seven months later, providing instant collections that replaced the lost.
It was not until 1916 when the Academy moved to the Pavilion of Birds and Mammals of North America in the Golden Gate Park, the first building of the place that would become his permanent home. In 1923, the Steinhart Aquarium, followed in 1934 by the African Pavilion Simson was added.
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