Patella 1948 Aug. 28 Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz. 1. To the main ranch house of the E.L. Stanton establishment in order to inform them of our arrival and to try to make arrangements for use of some of the facilities near the dock. There was a Chinese cook plus a foreman and his three assistants. These constitute the population on Stanton's part of the island when Stanton plus his family and friends (checked a letter from Stanton, then) are not visiting. The foreman gave permission to us a small house, occasionally used by the US Navy. The island rises rather abruptly out of the sea, and the slopes go up several hundred feet to a ridge running more or less east-west. Cutting this slope and opening into the shallow bay on which Prisoner's Harbor, at the west end, is located, is a broad canyon, filled with an alluvium of coarse gravel and sandy soil, representing the main drainage of the island's interior. This interior drainage follows a fault line from west to east, roughly to the middle of the island, then turns NE to open into the earlier mentioned shallow bay (on the N side of the island's "neck"). The N and NW-facing slopes also most canyons, at lower elevations, are covered with oak woodland. What appears to be Q. agrifolia is common along the sides of the main canyon flat; at least two other oak species are present and these