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November 14, 1935

Mr. Joseph R. Slevin
California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California

Dear Mr. Slevin:

I do hope that your article will be well illustrated.  That was one difficulty with the Nature Magazine.  They would not give me more space, and some pictures I asked of Mr. Swett did not reach us in time for the rotogravure supplement.  We may publish those at some future date.  I sometimes feel that neither your article nor mine reached the proper man at the Geographic Society, or else he didn't stop tp think about the Darwin centennial.

Could I get prints of some of the Rollo Beck tortoise pictures? I hope it may be possible to arrange for some if and when you have them copied for the Academy.  I would be glad to pay for their cost.  I have nothing on tortoises in my own file of pictures, and whatever pictures you could let me have would not be published  unless express permission were first obtained from you or from Mr. Beck.

If I have a spare copy of that inscription at Las Cuevas I will send it to you with this letter; otherwise a little later.  I am intrigued by what you say about the inscriptions on the rocks near James Bay.  Can you give me a little sketch map showing the approximate location of the gully of which you speak?  In what direction does it lie from the flamingo pool?  If Captain Hancock heads back to the Galapagos this winter I expect to be a member of the party, and I would certainly take pains to get those inscriptions if I can readily locate them.  I shall also bear in mind what you say about Cowley Mountain.

I would like nothing better than to go along on some trip with you, for you folks saw a great deal more and got more intimately acquainted with the islands than any other group.  Captain Hancock has always fought shy of Iguana Cove and the Villamil landing.  He has had so many unfavorable reports about the prospects of anchoring