Eugene, Oregon Tuesday March 1 Left Berkeley Cal, last night at 8.19 on the Southern Pacific for Eugene, Oregon. Got up at 7.15 A.M. and was still in California, near Sagelle in the Kasta Valley at an elevation of about 2700 feet. All of the Em't types are white under a new snow. A little further north it comes down to 3000' above the sea. All is now snow crowned and we are in fine conifer forests. At 10 A.M. we are at the summit of Dials (gym? or 4100'. The strata are hardly metamorphosed mostly dark blue shales with gneiss through bedded sandstones. They lie at low angles, and appear to be Paleozoic. Sagelle is I believe Hille's type locality for Devonian. There is now much spawning material. The nuts go up maybe to 6000'. Then are for down the outside to Oakland at 1872 feet. There is no rain here, but up in the nuts heard a light rain and probably some snow. But it is raining at Medford further north. Here we are in a wide valley at 1400' above sea, South of Glen dale we are again climbing the