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 12.45 Bernalda asked Prof. Millikan to lunch at the College Commons and at table were six other students. Then at 3.40 P.M. I spoke for 20 minutes to Bernalda's class on the objects of my visit to California. All the morning Bernalda and I talked over the stratigraphy of a Borderland of the Pacific shore and the age of the Basement Complex. On very little to known of these problems that all is uncertain and guessing. In general Bernalda believes with J.B. Smith that the Basement Complex is of late Paleogyr age. What evidence there is favors this assumption. The Franciscan series appear to be a general 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 on