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After the war, Harbison resumed his research expeditions, studying insects (especially
Odonata) and plants of Baja California, and focused his collecting on the Cañon del Cantil (Cantillas and its north fork, Tajo Cañon) in the Sierra de Juarez. Harbison participated in extended research trips from
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From 1939 to 1949, Harbison conducted nature study programs at the museum for the San Diego City
Schools. In 1943, when the U.S. Navy occupied the museum, Harbison moved part of the entomology collection and his junior naturalist educational materials to the Brooklyn Grammar School in San Diego,
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from 1942 to 1969. An avid field naturalist and researcher, Harbison influenced a generation of San Diego-born scientists in many fields of natural history through the Junior
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Harbison, Charles F. (1963). "A second new species of
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maintaining a "Children's Museum," teaching, and leading field trips for young naturalists throughout the war.
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