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Collections were made on the west coast of Lower California at 

 Santo Tomas anchorage, December 22 ; San Martin Island, De- 

 cember 26-30 ; San Bartolome Bay or Turtle Bay, January 2-4 ; 

 San Hipolita Bay, January 7 ; Point Abreojos, January 8, and Santa 

 Maria Bay, January n. 



Turning into the Gulf, the expedition made collections at San 

 Lucas Bay, January 19-21 ; Fraile Bay, January 24; Ensenada de Los 

 Muertos, January 26; La Paz Bay, February 5-13; Pichilinque Har- 

 bor, February 14; St. Gabriel's Bay, Espiritu Santo Island, February 

 15; Isla Partida, February 16-18; San Francisco Island, February 

 21 ; San Jose Island, February 22, 23; Evaristo Point, February 24; 

 San Carlos Bay, February 25 ; Carmen Island, February 26-28 ; 

 Puerto Escondido, February 28, 29; Coronado Island, March 2; 

 Pulpito Point, March 3; Conception Bay, March 6-10; Guayamas 

 Bay (many stations), March 16-26; Puerto San Carlos, March 27, 

 28; St. Inez Bay, March 29, 30; La Paz, April 5, and Mazatlan, 

 April 11-16. 



The amount of work accomplished on this expedition can be 

 partly visualized by the fact that in addition to the large amount of 

 dried and alcoholic material, of which there are 298 lots, si f tings from 

 the various dredge hauls, filling containers ranging from 8-ounce 

 bottles to 2-quart jars, were represented by 182 lots. One of these, 

 taken at random, yielded no less than 78 species of minute mollusks. 



To close this brief account I will give a few more extracts from 

 the journal : 



"Running along the coast of the Gulf of California, we found 

 many rocks and islands and few lights or aids to navigation. We 

 usually left our anchorage at dawn and tried to make our next ob- 

 jective before the norther regained momentum. Frequently we never 

 started; occasionally the wind came up with the sun, so we would 

 have to run back to our former anchorage or hope for the best in 

 a make-shift lee behind a small island or projection from the main- 

 land. The wind built up a short choppy sea into which it was most 

 difficult to drive a small boat. 



"When at first we went ashore I carried sidearms, expecting to 

 be held up by the 'wild aborigines.' After meeting several of the 

 'wild aborigines' in their native haunts, I decided that they should 

 have been carrying the sidearms. More particularly on the Peninsula 

 we found the Mexicans friendly and kindly and we thoroughly en- 

 joyed our grotesque conversation with them, part Mexican, part 

 English, sometimes mostly signs and smiles. We found warm wel- 

 come wherever we went. We will long treasure many fond memories 

 of our friends in the Bav of California." 



