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[[underlined]] To San Francisco [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Nov. 1 [[/underlined]] , Arrived at San Francisco about 9 A.M. and worked on plants the rest of day and most of the time for several days, getting our summers collection identified and labeled and the names worked into our reports and note books.

Miss Alice Eastwood came over and helped us over half day and we went to the Berkeley herberiam and worked with Prof. Hall another afternoon. We lunched at the Faculty Club with Mr. Gilbert and met Prof. Sichelt, Prof. [[space]], and Prof. Hall. Also Prof. Ritter and Dr. J.C. Merriam & President Wheeler. and a lot of other interesting people. Dr. Ward of the bacteriological laboratory told me of 13 cases of bubonic plague near Berkeley & San Francisco in which the men had been out shooting and had carried home groundsquirrels (C. beecheyi) in their pockets. It is suspected that the squirrels were affected by the plague & that their fleas conveyed the disease to the hunters. The Marine hospital people are studying the

Transcription Notes:
"C. beecheyi" would be Cynomys beecheyi, which is probably what is now called Otospermophilus beecheyi, the California ground squirrel. Ground squirrels are known reservoir hosts for plague (see https://www.cdc.gov/plague/transmission/index.html).