December 19, 1917 I returned to San Francisco in the fog on the 9:13am train. At the station, I met with Will Price, also on his way to the city. He is going into YMCA work in France. The Red Cross would not take him owing to his blood pressure. He is however in a ruddy happy state of health, but is not allowed to eat meat or drink coffee. With Price was Miss Hempel, a Stamford 1913 Zoology major, who has recently returned from France and Algeria, where she has done medical work. Now she is at the Harper Medical Research Lab in S.F. The 3 of us visited the Academy Museum in Golden Gate Park nearby her laboratory. I dined at the Palace with Price and afterward gave a talk with slides at the California Academy meeting at Mechanics Institute. December 20, 1917 In the evening I dined with Evermann and his family and Snyder at Oakland. Later I gave a talk on China and the East at the Cooper Club in the Museum of Ver. Zoology. Here I met with such old boys as Maillard, Roswell Wheeler, and Carridger. Wheeler, who is a teacher in the Oakland Schools has traveled in China, India and Japan. At Kobe, he said he had bought many beautiful lantern slides of a local dealer who colored them. Snyder made some remarks after my talk and said Cormorant Fishing could be seen by daylight in certain localities. There was a long discussion of why the crops are not eaten by insects because all insect feeding and small birds have been exterminated in Japan.