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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 n.w. of La Jolla, or 16 miles
n.w. of San Diego. Intended to see Rayhan.
but he had gone to Los Angeles. Looked a little
over the Institute. There are two large building
sheds and a group beside 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, Skelews 640 acres.
Then called on Professor Cre who is ordinarily in
armors here at the Institute, and other is living in
house 29. Later he took me to [illegible] Point just
off Pacific Beach to see the ?Pliocene n Pleistoc-
earc shell bed that in places is full of sand dollars.
Got a few loose ones and then Cre dug out from
a large slat which he will send me to sale. In the
afternoon he took me to the top of the gravel Mesa
and to "Grand Canyon" hanging place about two
New Paris Tongva farms. This mesa is some