of the biological aepartseats of the University, together with soai® ' 
of the students of the loag B©sic-h High School, on i'esearch '^rk conductsd 
at the Carnegie Marine Labox'story at Tortuga b and ay eaperienees ‘tliere 
aadsr watsr sad «itii dredging* The asae talk s^as given & seek later 
to this gi'adaat& studeuts* sminar at the Uaivez-sity cf Callfomie. at 
Berkeley. 
Vv?-Jfc. 
Several boars were devotee to <&a exasiiat. tioa of the. iaverte- 
ectione of tha Loa imgeles Museum, end a loai^ of cz-ustacean 
siateri^tl there arraagtjd fer speci/nens of service to Sias h: thlnm in 
preperatioa of the foia-tb of her volfusies oa Aiaericaa crabs. 
so’uthora branch of tbe Onivercity of Cal.!,fo 2 iiiu visited in coapauy 
rith Messrs, fi, M , Lowe &j-id Steve Glassell, good friends of the- Divieicn. 
of l»v©rtebi'&.t©. 0 ,- an.a Conors of coa&icerable vaiaca west coast 
faatarijil to the Jir/feioaiil eollectioas. 
, 1, and part of the nest was aptxit at the' iiopkins 
Marine : Sts tlorf at Facifle Grove, chiefly is the- coap&ny of Mr, Herbert 
QraMa of the Carnegie lasti tutiori, and Brs, ■Pieilig.x’, Skogsbeu'g, snd. Ke&th 
The collections of the C-alifo.raia Acaoecy of Sciencos ixi 
Golcsa Gate fiirk, San Iran cisco, anci the tJaivei’Kity c»f Calif oral a at 
Berkeley consaaed the- greater part of lay four and a half days ia th© 
Say region. At tlxe Acadsay I fomd quite a eollectloa of crustac-ea froia 
the Gtt.-lapagos I glands and the west -coast of Mexico miQ Seitriil laericu 
which ro-ioads out my own coll ectiouB ia -a aost satisfactoxy sfay. It iia4 
bem collected by tlie Taapletoa Crocker Sxpeditioa of 19SS:, ana coatain-ed 
move raateri&l thiaa tm were able to get together, the Z&ca having 
bees Boiaewiiat belter oquipped ia thirs direction -than tha ?elerO' III. 
the California AcadtSiiy celebrated lie Eightieth itfuaiversary wh,.le I was 
there, and in sxi wiofficisl my I was ®i,ablfd to r©pi'®S8|it tile lastiui- 
tioa at those exereiees, - / 
It 'th© University of California vsiuabls notee ware ra&de upon 
the nature of soiae of the iave-rtsbrate collaetiuns oc^nt&ia®d in their 
£fLcolic3.ic storage, but with x'evurd to ths prtiaary object of lay visit 
to tills iastitut-ioa I was not so successful, Thoug.h I went over all 
the invei’tebrats matarliil, I c-ooid find ao definite traces of the 
Harriiaaa Alasf.ca setiniaas -which have besai proaiiBed us by Hr. hefoid 
if mid whai t’o-UB,Q, and wliich are &o -.such needed by Ixu Os 0 a,.r Carl'gren 
of tile Eoologieel Institute, Lund, 3w8d«i, 5,a conneetioa with, certain 
revi^on-ary war^ he ia doi.ng on uiiese foitas, • The last hfilf day of my 
s'tsy at the University was spcait ia consul latloa with Ir®. lofoid 
and Light and mmet of tlieir g.r.id:ia.-te stuoents discussiag problsas 
relating to the taxonoaiic study of variesus gramps of west coast inverte- 
brates, I, talk was givsi before the graduate mid O'ti'sr students of the 
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