Weston 1946 29 Journal July 12 Twenty-nine Palms, San Bernardino Co., Calif. that Dr. Miller had left Berkeley this morning. This [illegible] our plans in a way as we both had decided to head out of here today if Dr. Miller wasn't going to come out. Now I expect we will be here another week or so. We were leaving because collecting has been very poor, especially the mammals, we are almost out (10+ left) of .22 shot shells, necessary for lizard collecting and the heat for 2 weeks straight out here kind of wears a person down. Finding out Dr. M. was coming, we drove back out to the 29 palm trees to wait. There we wrote field notes and lounged around, trying to cool off. Dark clouds have been passing overhead today and very irregular winds have been blowing. No rain by 4 p.m. though. Last night about 25+ phone poles were blown down here at 29 Palms. The poles are down between 4-corners and the plaza about 1 mile to the North. The service station attendant (Chevron Gas) at the Plaza, Tom Dowler, told me the strong wind lasted only a few minutes, about the same time as our dust storm at Old Dale. Out there the wind blew N, here it