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He is interested in fossil mammals, and wants all papers on the subject for review.
I also met Prof. Deecke, who speaks no English. He pointed out in detail two localities which I should visit, - Wasenweiler and Gottenheim.
He wishes to exchange European loess and diluvial shells for loess fossils from America.
I left for Wasenweiler at 10:09 A.M., and reached it at 10:28.
I walked to the quaint village which is strung along the base of Kaiserstuhl. The slopes of Kaiserstuhl are mostly covered with vineyards. There is no crop this year. Kaiserstuhl stands out on a broad plain. My work was only on the lower slopes, ^[[insertion]] the border [[/insertion]] - the elevations rise much higher in the distance. I followed a narrow road, - cut deep into the loess, northwestward

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up the slope from the north end of the village. This follows up into the notch in this part of the ridge, which is visible from below.
[[underlined]] Sections 1 and 2 [[/underlined]] are low down on the slope, 6 or 8 feet high, and show a mixture of loessy stuff, pebbles, sand and lime nodules. I collected a few shells from both. The banks are probably in overwash at base of slope. It certainly is not loess. Sec. 2 is but little higher up.
From this on the road cuts a narrow gorge, scarcely 20 ft. wide, and 25 to 50 ft. deep. There are tributary paths leading down, and along these the natives nimbly come, helping themselves on the steep slopes with sharp-pointed alpenstocks.
[[underlined]] Section 3 [[/underlined]] ^[[insertion]](i.e. its base)[[/insertion]] is about 20 ft. above section 2. Here the cut becomes