Mayhew 1959 Feb. 24 UCR Deep Canyon D.R.S., Riverside Co., Calif. This afternoon Mr. Philip L. Boyd (one of the Regents of the Univ. of Calif.), Dr. Harry Wellman (Vice President of the University of Calif.), Dr. Herman Spieth (Chancellor of UCR), Dr. Dean Parker (Chairman of Division of Life Sciences, UCR), Lloyd Twiss (Calif. Tech. biologist), and I went into our Deep Canyon Desert Research Station to see what should be done to develop it. We found tracks of vehicles of presumably commercial nurserymen that have carried out numerous ocstillo and barrel cacti from the area. We plan to lock the gate at the entrance to our area immediately. Mr. Boyd said the area now belongs to the Univ. of Calif., since the Regents accepted his deed at the last Regents' meeting (February 20). Although the afternoon was reasonably warm, I saw only 3 lizards active. All of these appeared to be Uta stansburiana, but I couldn't tell for sure in any case. Everything looks quite dry in the area. No water is running in either Deep Canyon or Coyote Canyon, nor does there appear to have been any in recent times. These stream beds are dry several inches down.