Seattle, Monday March 7 It rained all day. At 9.30 A.M. I called on Professor Beurn and found him with gray hair. Said it came on with his South American travels having contracted dysentery and malaria. Even now his death is not far. He talked paleography all day but so far I have not been able to make use of the N.W. - S.E. strata of anything. Washington, D.C. Beurn thinks those strata are very old -- maybe even Pre-Paleognic and certainly not younger than Post-Dynastic. Met his former students Mr. Prater and Mr. Ettrington. Had lunch at the Faculty Club on the Univ. Campus.