clipping around among the birds. Spent the afternoon in looking over the museum bird collection. They certainly have a great assortment of material. However the makeup of the skins are poor and do not at all compare with Dickip's collection. Returned to San Francisco. The boat started at 6: P.M. The N.F. serves great meals and the service and courtesy of the officials, porters etc. is quite surprising. June 15, Spent the day in traveling the ship went farther out to sea and the weather fogged up so we could see nothing of Oregon. The sea was quite calm and seemed no rougher than south of S.F. Saw some large dark birds but could not identify them. They were larger than ducks and flew gracefully on bowed wings. They were at quite a distance. I saw a great many porpoises. The sun set at 8:30 P.M. and the sky remained light till 9:30.