E.Y. Miller 1940 General Account (Mar.11) Mar.15 1940. Left Berkeley, Calif. about 9 AM, with S.S.B. Benson and his wife in U.C. truck no 170 - make - International, small type with closed over back. We carried equipment for a 3 months trip into Mexico - purpose, chiefly to collect mammals, also some birds and reptiles. We expected to enter the border at Laredo, Texas. The first day we made San Fernando, Calif., where we stayed overnight at the home of Mrs. Benson's parents. Mrs. Benson remained at San Fernando, and S.S. Benson and I left there in the morning, Mar.12. We stopped at Pasadena for a short time to see Van Rossum. We went through Los Angeles to get a film pack adapter. The second night we camped along the road near Wellton, Arizona. Mar.13 we reached Nogales Ariz., on the Mexican border, passing through Tucson, Ariz.- We repaired (had repaired) our generator at Tucson, it being burned out as a result of charging too high. At Nogales we spent the night in the "Shady Auto Camp", a clean but run down place. Price of cabin without bedding $1.00. Hot shower included. Our bedding was insufficient for the coolness of the nights in this region, at Nogales the minimum night temperature of 18° F was recorded by our thermometer. We needed heavy wool socks and woolen underwear to sleep in. Our beds were army cots with sleeping bags. Mar.14. We visited Fred W. Dille, formerly of the Biological Survey, now retired. He gave us the skull of a mountain lion, which he had obtained from William Hathaway. I cleaned the skull, which was full of maggots and packed it in sawdust for