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to be expressed to Long Beach Long Beach, CA. Key for suit case 25¢. Tips to bell boys for expressing stuff, etc. 50¢. Left on 9 o'clock motor car, corner of 4th and C, for La Jolla La Jolla, CA. Two tickets for Braemar Braemar, San Diego 60¢, but got off at Pacific Beach Pacific Beach, San Diego and started south to round the point which juts into False bay False Bay, San Diego. On east side of this cape we found old kitchen middens midden crowning the bluffs, containing chiefly Pecten Pecten and Chione Chione, but with numerous Pomaulax undosus Pomaulax undosus. At the point we struck a shell conglomerate, mostly Donax laevigata Donax laevigata, probably Pliocene, at base of bluff and following around to west side, found it extending higher up the bluff (dip being south) and containing great numbers of sand stars Astropecten, of which we collected 60 or 70.At north end of bluff we packed out stuff, the fossils making one bag full. Also had a lot of recent land snails land snail and Bulla gouldiana Bulla gouldiana. Then we ate dinner and took two pictures. Continued due west to the ocean and turned north, where we found within a short distance a Pleistocene horizon containing many species, of which we