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

This morning, 9-10, I called ? 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 ? of ? was the death, of
typhoid ? 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 ? above ? ? at Bluff Lake, San Bernardino, in a grove of growing pines many of them showing muscular "sign". I examined the section (4 inches in diameter at one end, 2 1/4 inches off the other) closely, but could see more of the characteristic lower-incisor marks on either the bared wood or the adjacent bank; so I doubt it's being Porcupine work, tho Mr. Stephens is sure it is,and he very much resented(?) my ? otherwise. Wright M. Pierce knows more about this "evidence"; no actual specimen of Porcupine has ever been forthcoming from the San Bernardinos, altho ? of their presence there keep bobbing up.