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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: San Diego
Date: November 1, 1925
Page Number: 2614

This morning, 9-10, I called in Mr. + Mrs.
Frank Stephens at their old home, now in the heart of
modern residence district, 3746 Park Blvd.
I found Mr. Stephens (now 76 he told me) quite vigorous,
of both mind and body, and I had a very pleasant visit
with him. Among items of news was the death, of
typhoid down in Mexico somewhere, a month or so ago,
of Jose Maria Gallegos, who was the Mexican museum
representative at Tijuana. No successor has as yet been
appointed. One thing of interest Stephens showed
me was a 4-foot section of a young pine trunk
from portions of which the bark had been gnawed
"by Porcupines". This sample Mr. Stephens got,
himself, in July, 1923, one-fourth mile above the
hotels at Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mountains,
in a grove of young pines many of them showing
similar "sign". I examined the section (4 inches in
diameter at one end, 2 1/4 inches at the other) closely,
but could see none of the characteristic lower-incisor
marks on either the bared wood or the adjacent
bark; so I doubt it's being Porcupine work, tho
Mr. Stephens is sure it is, and he very much resented
my intimation otherwise. Wright M. Pierce knows
more about this "evidence"; no actual specimen of
Porcupine has ever been forthcoming from
the San Bernardino, altho rumors of
their presence there keep bobbing up.

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justinramos

Cannot distinguish Unknown 1, 2

Nathani

How about July, 1923, one-fourth mile above the hotels at Bluff Lake...

justinramos

Corrected.