WM. H- CROCKER, 
PresideBt Board of Trustees 
SUSIE M. PEERS. 
Secret-ary Beard of Trustees 
California Academy of Sciences 
GOLDEN GATE PARK 
San Francisco, California 
TeIjEPIIONE BAyview 5100 
F. M. MAC FARLAND, 
President of the Academy and Acting 
Director of the Museum and of the 
Steinhart Aquarium 
It seems stra-nge to me that Darwin did not inow of 
Porter’s notes on Galapagos tortoises. As you -scoo 
Porter who first called attention to the fact 
from the different islands were different, I 
scientists would have known of these notes oy 
mentions this fact in his Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific 
C oa st . 
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I enioyed the article very much and I can easily see where 
the makzin7would be glad to get it. I think the Nation^ Geo- 
craphirgoes ii more for de script iva travel of ooimtries where 
^tourists can .-et to. Some of your pictures make me feel homesick.. 
Montr n n-in-ht T snent trying to get a wink of sleep in those caves 
on^Charles. I suppose you will be starting i^remin°^^' 
With best wishes and congratulations on your article. 
Very tiuly yours. 
California Academy of Sciences. 
