1925: Joseph Grinnell's field notes

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Grinnell, J 1925

San Diego, Calif. Sections 1,3

Lassen Section, Calif. Section 2

Lower California, Mexico Section 3

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San Diego, Calif. 1925

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San Diego, Calif. Mar. 3-4, 1925 pp. 2451-2457

see also Oct.31-Nov.1, 1925. pp. 2613-2614 in Section 3

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Author: Grinnell - 1925 Location: San Diego, California Date: March 3, 1925 Page Number: 2451

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2 p.m., at the Natural History Museum, in Balboa Park. Here in the interests of launching an MVZ "expedition" into Lower California. Left Berkeley on "Owl" Friday night (Feb. 27). Spent Saturday at the Los Angeles Museum, Exposition Park, and Saturday night with Lee Chambers. Came to San Diego, Sunday forenoon; and since then have been meeting various people; and especially, waiting to see Jose Maria Gallegos, the Mexican official who is supposed to be mainly influential in the granting of permits for an entry into Lower California. But, Sr. Gallegos hasn't returned to the Hotel Brewster (his headquarters here) from a trip he and Laurence Huey undertook two weeks ago down to the vicinity of San Quentin. They went under the auspices of the Museum here to collect some mammals and were supposed to be be back Sunday. But delays on the order of the day, seemingly, in this life-zone! Also it is said that a fellow-Mexican is on Gallegos trail with a knife, by reason of an alleged unpaid debt of $800.00 - settled by a Mexican judge, but not settled in the eyes of the creditor! So - I wait, and MVZ party (Borell in Berkeley and Lamb in Los Angeles) waits. Poco tiempo! I have met several fine people here: Mr. L. M. Klauber, an engineer, and his friend H. R. Peckham, both informative and ready to help

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Collector:Grinnell - 1925 Location: San Diego Date: March 3, 1925 Page Number: 2452

in any feasible way. Klauber is amateur herpetologist, a good friend and scientific protege of Dr. VanDenburgh before the latter's death. His published list of San Diego County snakes is very creditable. Klauber took me out to the Scripps Institution beyond Lajolla in the afternoon yesterday; there we saw Dr. F.B. Sumner and the latter's "murarium." The chief things Dr. F.B. Sumner is breeding are the Alabama races of Peromyscus, a white one in San Jose Island [unknown 4], a dark one in the interior of the state, and one of intermediate tone on the mainland seashore. Dr. Sumner caught alive and brought with very few fatalities over 150 of these mice to Lajolla, where they are thriving and breeding in his mouse-house. I saw the first generation from the sand-white race, bred in confinement, and they are just like their parents - no darkening. Dr. Sumner has cross-mated some of the mice, and has blended intermediate offspring, between parents of the different races; in other words the characters do not sharply segregate. So far, attempted matings between the Alabama (P. leucopus, ssp.) with Californian P. maniculatus, ssp., have proven fruitless. The Austrian zoologist, Dr. Paul Kammerer, had been at Lajolla in the forenoon; Dr. Sumner was very

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