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Oct. 5
12:30. - At extreme southern end
of Puget Sound, where the RR skirts the
water, passed a place, Steilacoom. This
old Fort Steilacoom, Wash., where Cores
and Suckley collected. Certain bird
types come from there. We were surprie[?]
to see many madrone trees in that
vicinity, now planted, along with the
dominant Douglas spruce.
Reading Seattle at 2:20 we were met
by Dr. Robert C. Miller, one-time student
of mine and now professor at Univ. of Wash.
Putting up at the New Washington Hotel,
he then took us out to the U. of W.
campus, showing us the new building[s]:
—fine library, science bldy., etc. Formerly
Trevor Kincaid in his laboratory, work[?]
on ecological survey (of plankton
chiefly) of fresh-waters of Washington State
and the Pacific district generally. He
is especially concerned with Copepod
and Cladocera; says that every lake
(and there are hundreds) has a
separately recognizable race or
population, betokening potency of
isolation. He believes the characters
are heritable. Says he can look
at any plankton sample and tell