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WM. H. CROCKER,
President Board of Trustees

SUSIE M. PEERS,
Secretary Board of Trustees

F. M. MAC FARLAND
President of the Academy and Acting Director of the Museum and of the Steinhart Aquarium.

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
GOLDEN GATE PARK
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

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reproduce well. It tells of the visit of a French Brig under command of the Count de Gueydan. When Beebe copied a lot of the inscriptions he had this one down, but had it wrong. I tried to find out who theCount of Gueydan was, but to date have not been able to do so. The name of the ship, or rather brig, is S. Mte Le Genie. I thought this would be a nice thing to get in, mentioning that Cocos was often visited by the early navigators.

Among the old pictures I got some from Rollo H. Beck showing the tortoises and the ravages of the oil hunters. Beebe published one of this type, but mine is a different print. The barrel at Postoffice Bay as it stood in 1902 is shown as an historical picture. I trust the editor will get in all the pictures I sent.

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I went overland to Las Cuevas from Cormorant Bay and have a faint recollection of seeing the name of Cobos on the rock cliff. One thing that always make me sad when I think of the inscriptions on the rocks is the fact that I lost my notebook getting off the beach just north of James Bay after I had copied the names of a lot of whalers, the number of days they were out from New Bedford, and in some cases the names of the Captains and Mates. These were all in a little gully just north of James Bay.

When I had the National Geographic in mind I bargained on getting a lot of the pictures as I thought that magazine would be the only one rich enough to carry so many illustrations. I sent some samples and told them I would furnish ample for the article. However, as you know they turned it down saying that they had two years supply of natural history. I suppose this was a polite way of letting me down. I did not send the full quota of pictures as it would have been necessary to go down to Los Angeles to pick them out as Swett told me he did not have prints of all the negatives. Iwould have to go through the card catalog and pick out the subjects I wanted. I did not want to do this on account of the expense of the trip down there.

There are one or two places in the Galapagos I would like to visit again, but as far as I am concerned I guess they are a closed book. It would not pay me to go down again as far as herpetology is concerned. I would like to visit the country to the northwest of Vilamil Mountain again and also to look on the right part of Duncan Island to see how the crop of tortoises is. A visit to the southwest slope of Iguana Cove Mountain would also be in order to see if the big tortoises were still there.