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rides through the orchards and by the residences of Pasadena and 

 even to the base of the Sierra Madre mountains. We also visited 

 the City Museum of Los Angeles where I especially desired to see 

 the wonderful skeleton of Elephas Iviperator which is so large that 

 it makes the skeleton of a mammoth near by almost insignificant. 

 This fine skeleton, together with the remains of the famous sabre- 

 toothed tiger, was found in the asphalt beds and is ver}^ perfectly 

 preserved although of a dark color from the preserving medium. 



Monday I went to San Diego for the beautiful exhibition 

 there. Apart from the very artistic arrangement of building 

 and grounds, I was much attracted by the United States exhibit 

 of "The History of Man", arranged by Ales Hrdlicka, showing 

 the earl}' skulls from Pithecanthropos up. It was, in many ways, 

 the clearest exposition I had seen. There were also excellent 

 casts of the monuments at Quirigua in Guatemala that I had 

 photographed many years ago. Apart from the fruits, the ex- 

 hibits were good, but neither exhaustive nor remarkable, but 

 later, in viewing the San Francisco exhibition (which I had as 

 yet only seen by night, illumined by the Fourth of July fire- 

 works), I was grateful to the San Diego people for excluding 

 many horrors and monstrosities from their grounds. 



On my return to San Francisco I went early in the morning 

 to the exhibition and walked on and on until five in the afternoon, 

 with onl}' a rest for luncheon. I repeated my visit on several days 

 but did not make so long a tramp. The tanks of the United States 

 Fish Commission were well stocked, well kept, and most interest- 

 ing — a great contrast to the attempted exhibition of fish in the 

 Hawaiian Building near by. In the Canadian Building was per- 

 haps the most attractive exhibit, although the taxidermy of the 

 specimens generally was not good. The Swedi-sh Building had 

 much to attract, and best of all a young gentleman who could 

 give any reasonable information about his country and its exhibits. 

 I never read so good an account of Sweden as was given, well 



illustrated, in its official catalogue. 



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