X, 
Scarcely twmty-fom* hour-s were ^ent at Stm Diego, where we 
discharged Uie lire sniaal cargo gottea together by Captain Hancock for 
the Sun Diego 2oo« We arrived at the sMp*s home port, Los togeles 
Harbor, Saturday, Febraa,rj 2.S, 19S5, after another adorable end 
acienitfically Texy sueceesfai ei-uise* 
While in Los Angeles, I attended first to getting the £| 
cclleetad for the Museua packed and shipped, I conisulted with Mr* Swett, 
at Captain Hancock'® Bein office® in Hollywood, regarding past, present, 
and future plane of the H&neock Pacific Irpeditioaej vieiting al^ the 
Department of Zoology of the tJaiversiity of SGatiier.i Califomis, California 
Tech at Pasadena, where Mr. Van Kossm uafortuastely was out at the ti»e 
of call} Dx-. de Laubenfels, also ia PaBadena, with whoa I discussed 
matters relating tc the idenilflccttlon of sponges foi* the Museua, I 
also called -apori Mr, Steve CiasaeO.1, of B.3verly Hills, the laost active 
■Tox'ker in crsiot&ce-a. in this couzitiy excepting ourselves here ia this 
Sfa30-a.'a, Wifcii his auto I was ei&bled to visit the Balboa Beach laboratory 
of ths Callfoxuia Instltuti of Technology, of which Br. G, 1. MacGinitie 
is r-osldoat dix’ectoi’. 
Leaving Los Augoles at 10,30 p.s. March S, I arzlved at 10,^ 
the following aoi'uing in Pacific Grove, calling first upon Dr* falter K, 
Fisher, Director of the Hopkins liarine Labora.-iory' * While in Monterety, 
I secixred a aost reaarkable slab of Miocene crabs froa a local curio 
dealer in exchange for & live Galapagos land iguana, 
I pivsceedfid to San Frimcisco on t-he Afternoon of the fifth, 
vi al ted the Califc'ccla Acaasjay the next day , calling on Drs. Seale, 
ii@i’'&lota, and Slevia, Oit March 7 I wSiit to Palo Alto, where I exaniaed 
the Invertebrate collections .®xd ma.de the acquaintauee of Dr, Herre, in 
charge of the iraseum. It was ny first a-eetiag with hia, thoxjgh we have 
been in corresponderice froa iiae to tlae. Dr. Weyaouth and several of 
his gi'&duate' stod^-itc are still engaged in gx’owth studies on certoln 
cpeciea of Crustacea, prolileas that msy have considerable bearing on 
our ta3toaj»lc «05*k. 
After going to Oakland eroufid the lower sad of the Bay, by way 
of San Mo;?e, I ^eaat the 8to of March at the Haiversity of California 
sdth the lnv 0 x-bebi*ate coolofista and p-sleoixtoiagist®. Dr* Griaaal was 
cut . at' the tiae of ay cell at the Wertebrats Mus^ia, A second day was 
spentj at the Acadiaay Suaeucd In Goldasi Gate Park, .especially to continue 
eonVersittioas x*e the Galapagos fauna wl'th Hei’tieia, Sievin, and, I had 
hopj^, Swarth, bat I again missed the l&tter, X left San Francisco that 
/ 
Seattle was reached on Monday, the 11th of March, This day 
w|is a^ent at the Oceanographic Laboratory, A balk on the Galapagos 
Islands And the Hancock Expedition® was given the sane evening to the 
ao'ology ©nd oceanograpl^' faeoltiee, and Iheix" graduate students. The 
tmre- 
of Fisheries laboratory, as wall as the departnant of flsh- 
bries of the University of Washington, was visited on Tuesday, March 12th 
before leaving Seattle for I^ver, 
