WM. H. CROCKER. 
President Board of TrusteeH 
SUSIE M. PEERS, 
Secretary Board of Trustees 
California Academy op Sciences 
GOLDEN GATE PARK 
San Francisco, California 
Telephone BAyview 5100 
F. M. MAC FARLAND, 
President of the Academy and Acting 
Director of the Museum and of the 
Steinhart Aquarium, 
reproduce well. It tells of the visit of a French Brig 
under command of the Count de Gueydan. When Beebe copied 
a lot of the inscriptions he had this one down, but had 
it wrong. I tried to find out v\ho the Count of Gueydan was, 
but to date have not been able to do so. The name of 
the ship, or rather brig, is 3. Mte Le Genie. I thought this 
would oe a nice thing to get in, mentioning that Cocos was 
often visited by the early navigators. 
Among the old pictures I got some from Hollo H.Beck 
showing the tortoises and the ravages of the oil hunters. 
Beebe published one of this type, but mine is a different 
print. The barrel at Postoffice Bay as it stood in 1902 
is shown as an historical picture. I trust the editor ’'vill 
get in all the pictures I sent. 
I went overland to Las Cuevas from Cormorant Bay and 
have a faint recollection of seeing the name of Cobos on 
the rock cliff. One thing that always make me sad when I 
think of the inscriptions on the rocks is the fact that 
I lost my notebook getting off the beach ^ust north of 
James Bay after I had copied the names of a lot of whalers, 
the number of days they were out from New Bedford, and in 
some cases the names of the Captains and Mates. These were 
all in a little gully just north of James Bay. 
When I had the National Geographic in mind I bargained 
on getting a lot of pictures as I thought that magazine 
would oe the only one rich enou^ to carry so many illus- 
trations. I sent some smaples and told them I would 
furnish ample for the article. However, as you know they 
turned it down saying that they had two years supply of 
natural history. I suppose this was a polite way of letting 
me down. I did not send the full quota of pictures as it 
would have been necessary to go down to Los Angeles to 
pick them out as Swett told me he did not have prints of 
all the negatives. Iwould have to go through the card catalog 
and pick out the subjects I wanted. I did not want to do 
this on accoTint of the expense of the trip down there. 
There are one or two places in the Galapagos I would 
like to visit again, but as far as I am concerned I guess 
they are a closed book. It would not pay me to go down again 
as far as herpetologr is concerned. I would like to visit 
the country to the northwest of Vilamil Mountain again 
and also to look on the ri^t part of Duncan Island to see 
how the crop of tortoises is. A visit to the southwest 
slope of Iguana Cove Mountain would also oe in order to see 
if the big tortoises were still there. 
