Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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San Diego, Jan 28 - Friday Took the nine A.M. bus for Los Angeles and got off at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography about two miles on west of La Jolla, or 16 miles north west of San Diego. Intended to see Payham but he had gone to Los Angeles. Looked a little over the Institute. There are two large building sheds and a rough besides about two dozen small houses used as residences. There is also a little aquarium, a museum and a good library. Lots of land around the place, believe 640 acres. Then called on Professor Cre who is ordinarily in arms down at the Institute, and other living in house 29. Later he took me to Coronado Point just off Pacific Beach to see the ?Pliocene Pleistocene shell bed that in places is full of sand dollars. Got a few loose ones and then Cre dug out from a large slab which he will send me to scale. In the afternoon he took me to the top of the gravel Mesa and to "Grand Canyon" hanging place about two New Paris Tonguaro sizes. This mesa is some