Los Angeles, Feb 3, Thursday Before 9 A.M. I was on my way by electric car to Pasadena to see Dr. Bernalda of the Cal. Inst. of Technology. At 12:10 Bernalda asked Prof. Millikan to lunch at the College commons and to take me to visit students. Then at 3:40 P.M. I spoke for 20 minutes to Bernalda as close on the object of my visit to California. All the morning Bernalda and I talked over the stratigraphy of a Bordenland of the Pacificshore and the age of the Basement Complex. On very little to known of these problems that are in uncertain and growing. In general Bernalda believes with J.B. Smith that the Basement Complex is of late Paleozoic age. What evidence there is favors this assumption. The Franciscan series appear to be a formal term embracing Jurassic strata and maybe also Triassic. The granites here appear to be of Jurassic and of late Paleozoic age. Bernalda took me to the Seismologic station of the Carnegie Inst. and Cal. Inst. of Technology. The machines are six in number all set in