December 7, 1917 This morning I visited Rowley¹⁵ at the Oakland Public Museum at Oakland. The place is situated in an old wooden building in a park on the shores of Lake Merritt. I found Rowley in the attic with an Examiner reporter, and Mr. Hubbard, an Oakland sportsman and sort of father to the institution. He is a relative of Mrs. Bell, who was a Hubbard. The Museum has large exhibits, but is an old house with small rooms and not suitable for a display place. They have a new building planned in the park. The funds are provided by the city. Public lectures in schools are given by a woman whom I met, and cases of birds are used in this connection. Rowley told me of an African sportsman who lives in Oakland, Mr. Simpson, who will donate his collection of African heads to the Museum as soon as he can take them from London. Dr. Thompson, the Naval Surgeon, is curator of reptiles. The assistant curator of reptiles was present and he exhibited a live black rattler which was very tame and possessed well formed fangs. On the ferry, I met K.E. Baker of the Tenya. He is a U.S. Rubber Co. expert who has been stationed at Singapore. He is now on his way to the N.Y. office. At 8pm, I went to Chinatown with Police Sargent Kelley and with Knoth and Janssen and Myers and Obrian and Poole of A.S.F. business house. Chinatown was vastly different from a town in China, for its streets were wide, clean, and the underground rooms were deserted, - no opium smokers or fan tan players being extant. The Sargent showed us many secret doors, closets, etc. He introduced us to Rosay, a