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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 Alephas Imperator 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 very 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 early 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 only a rest for luncheon. I repeated my visit on several days 
but did not make so longatramp. ‘The tanks ofthe 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. Inthe Canadian Building was per- 
haps the most attractive exhibit, although the taxidermy of the 
specimens generally was not good. ‘The Swedish 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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