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North
(copy) epn
(Jan. 5, 1939 copy) epn
(Jan 20, 1939 original) epn
Jan. 5, 1939 had to drive in from San Bernardino
to Los Angeles, the road was
flooded in many places at one time
reaching the running boards of
the car.
Jan. 20, 1939 I have looked up data on the
type locality of Peromyscus crinitus
stephensi that we looked for, Dec. 28, '38,
without finding. The type specimen was
taken, May 8, 1894 - quote, "among granite
boulders at the first water in the
canyon through which the wagon road
crosses the Coast Range Mountains by way
of Mountain Spring, in San Diego
County, California, at the east base
of the mountains," unquote. The for.
giving description is taken from
"Smithsonian Institution, United
States National Museum," bulletin
56 of the year 1907 and written by
Edgar Alexander Mearns, M.D.
Major and Surgeon, U.S. Army.
In giving his itinerary and [illegible]
description of flora, he states, p. 131,
that from May 7 to 9, 1894 his party
was camped at station No. 84,
which was quote "Eastern base of the
Coast Range Mountains, San Diego
County, California. This station was