Nordricken 1950 Journal Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. to New Orleans, Louisiana Oct. 10 Dr. Robt. C. Stabbins and I left San Francisco Airport at about 8:30 and flew via Dallas, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana. We saw no snow on the Sierras (including Mt. Whitney) as we flew over them. Landed in New Orleans at about 7:00 P.M. New Orleans, Louisiana to Miami, Florida Oct. 11 Left New Orleans Airport at about 9:00 A.M. and flew to Atlanta, Georgia, changing planes there and continuing to Miami, Florida. During the flight over the delta region of the Mississippi River, I was impressed by by the succession of vegetation which could be seen in all its stages: The stream courses were very sinuous, and frequently the water had apparently cut across the neck of a horseshoe or loop in the stream course, building bars across the ends of the cut-off section, and creating isolated crescent- crescent-shaped to horseshoe-shaped ponds of stagnant water. These were seen in various stages of plant succession, with cypresses moving in and filling the gap in the aerial vegetation until the location of a pond was obvious not by sight of the water, but by the crescent- to-horseshoe-shaped band of gray-green cypress amid the continuous dark green of