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[[underlined]] Dec. 10. [[/underlined]]  Clear & cold in morning, 17 [[degree symbol]] before sunrise.
Caught a Dipodops under the wagon.  Went over to Big Pine for mail, found none.  Got a telegram at the station telling me that Nelson & Dykeman were at Keeler & to meet them there.  Went to camp & skinned out 8 mammals, got ready & took the train at 3 P.M. for Keeler.  Arrived at Keeler after dark & met Mr. Nelson & Dykeman & Mr. Wilkinson, the last a signal service officer who is to read barometer for us.  Found arrangements at rather loose ends, decided to come up to Lone Pine & meet the train & camp there for a week or so.

Nelson had been here for nearly 2 weeks & had a collation of mammals including Dipodomys deserti, a little Dipodomys, Onychomys, Ochetodon, Hesperomys, & Thomomys. He had trapped mostly in the sand dunes around the edge of the lake flats. The valley is all sandy here & mostly covered scatteringly with Atriplex & Sarcobatus. Salt grass grows all around the lake shore. Did not have time or a chance to go around by daylight & only got a poort idea of this country.
Wrote & talked plans till late at night.