December 5, 1917 This afternoon I visited the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park but found Everman away. Paul Fair, who is now chief taxidermist was there and I was shown over the place. The building is only one year old and is an ideal one for exhibitions. It has only top light and the groups are large wall affairs with painted backgrounds and only a direct front view is possible of them. The backgrounds are by Caswin and are all California scenes, as are the mammals and birds. They have a San Joaquin Elk group and Dr. Everman is saving space for a Roosevelt Elk group next to it and asked me to speak to Colonel Roosevelt regarding financing it. There is a fine mountain sheep group with San Jacinto background. A sea lion group, stellus seal group, harbor seal, and a sea elephant group in preparation. A very artistic sunset is the background for a San Joaquin goose group. Outside the building in the shed, they have a sulfur bottom whale skeleton 87 feet long, the longest one on exhibition anywhere. ____ showed me a set of slides of Galapagos photos, but most of them were poor negatives.