Weston 1946 Journal 9. July 3 Quail Spring, Joshua Tree Natl Monument, San Bernardino Co., Calif. supplies and our sleeping bags into the car. at 2 p.m. we left Quail Spring, headed for Key's View, 5000 ft., Joshua Tree Natl. Mon., Riverside Co., Calif., about 1/2 miles from our camp. After driving up to Key's View, we turned around and drove back along the road for 1/2 a mile or so and stopped. There we planned to roll out our bags and sleep tonight. From about 4 to 6 p.m. we worked around nearby looking for reptiles. The country at this locality is fairly level, a few knolls covered with large boulders appearing here and there. I got no reptiles. Dr. S. and Wade caught a few Xantusia vigilis under fallen Joshua tree logs and several Sceloporus occidentalis in the rocks. The vegetation consists of many dead (or dry?) Eriogonum plants with scattered Juniper trees, piñon pine and Joshua trees growing about. Because of the height a westerly breeze blew off and on. After eating supper, consisting of sandwiches, we talked awhile and then set out our bed rolls. I set out two rat traps at a woodrat nest in the rocks near camp. We then went to bed at 8 p.m., the earliest we have gone to bed on this trip. Today the collecting of all vertebrates