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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

TELEPHONE BAYVIEW 5100

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If you go down with Hancock this winter you ought to try and get him to take a look at Cowley Mountain.  You can anchor off Cowley Island in perfect safety and land right at the foot of the mountain.  This mountain is different from the rest of them and has the slope you land on a clear field of pumice. You travel over pumice a long way up the slope and around the rim of the crater find^[[a handwritten vertical line]]a forest of sword grass.  Of course, there is not a great deal around there, but it shows a type of Galapagos country you will not see elsewhere.

I thought by this time we would be seeing in the Museum News that you were on the way to Los Angeles to join the VELERO III.  However, now that the Ritters have gone the Enchanted Islands may have lost some of their charm for him.  It may be possible that my article will come out in the December Natural History, so you might keep your eye open for that issue if you are not in the Galapagos.  I'll be glad to know if you think it should have passed inspection.

Very truly yours,

[[handwritten]] Joseph R. Selvin [[/handwritten]]
California Scademy of Sciences.

[[taped on paper with handwritten material]] The Geographic never got over their peeve with me over asking for the return of my not used Juan Fernandez photos and the _______ book, a rare one it is.  They turned down my Darwin article which appeared in the Nature Magazine and refused to consider an article on the Presidential Cruise of '38
[[wavy line under "a rare one it is" and through text " in the Nature Magazine"]]

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