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Collector: Grinnell-1925
Location: San Diego
Date: March 4, 1925
Page Number: 2457 (8) (?)

I had nearly two hours' visit with Senor Jose
Maria Gallegos, really the man I came down to
see. He proved affable to a degree; promised to do
everything in his power for the University party,
and if words count he is an ally. However, he
was far more eager to tell me, in his rather
broken English, about his own accomplishments
and aims than to learn anything from me.
He had a typed report of his own to the
Mexican headquarters at Mexico City, from which
he read and explained long excerpts. It covered
his various local trips with Huey, the Calif.
Acad. Sci. people and others - narrative with
records of some of the birds and mammals
taken - illustrated profusely with photos, in
many of which he himself appeared conspicuously!
I noted many statements and forms of expression
obviously taken from U.S. reports, translated.
He is thus imitative, as also is the "museum"
work he is undertaking at Tijuana, Mexicale
and Juarez. At these points the Mexican
government, thru him, is establishing little
museums of natural history, for "education
of the children and amusement of the tourists."
On the whole, tho childishly self-important, I liked
Gallegos; he is gentlemanly anyway, which some
Americans are not!
Returned to Los Angeles in P.M.; there via "Owl" to Berkeley.