At 3.30 attended the meeting of the Lo Coste Botanical Club of Berkeley and Stanford Univ. Rogers spoke on the Canyon Cladis near Circula trench and concluded its origin as primarily due to a plumed in of a quick meteorite. Then Cheney spoke of the climatic change during the Pleis- tocene of the West Coast. Back at the Pliocene time was a wide spread Redwood flora that was con restricted to a narrow strip of about 60 miles along the Pacific slope. It forms wider distri- bution (about 200 miles wide) primarily took place in Pliocene time for drier climate flora of deadwoods and willow that grew along stream courses. Cause the rise of the Cascade Mt's. This history is unlike that of the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Plains. Then Manam spoke on his peculiar ring of paleoclimate. It was a poor presentation, and his ideas were guided by Mr Bowie of the Geothn Bureau (D.F.). He was brother of Bowie of forestry fame. At 6.30 P.M. we all sat down to a