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[[red underlined]] Same "Indian Creek" where I used to anchor to see the Crocodiles is now a very fashionable, admirably [[/red underlined]] built up quarter and Indian Creek itself, has been deepened and straightened to a spick and span very wide calm canal, and [[strikethrough]] nothing to [[/strikethrough]] it requires an effort to think what wild swampy jungle this was about [[red underlined]] 12 years ago, [[/red underlined]] and that this was the [[red underlined]] "Crocodile hole" [[/red underlined]] where I saw two large crocodiles plunge in the water from the very little beach from which I had been swimming.
[[underlined]] April 3 [[/underlined]] Busy day ^[[{blasting holes for trees]]
[[underlined]] April 5 [[/underlined]] 
[[entry in left margin]] [[underlined]] Sir James Jeans. [[/underlined]] [[/left margin]]
Left on [[red underlined]] W.J. Matheson [[/red underlined]] boat for his Biscayne Bay Island in company of the famous astronomer, [[red underlined]] Sir James Jeans, Sec'y of the Royal Society. His wife who was [[/red underlined]]
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a [[red underlined]] Miss Mitchell, and his daughter,[[/red underlined]] with him also his mother in law [[red underlined]] Mrs. Mitchell [[/red underlined]] who lives on Brickell Ave, Matheson, [[red underlined]] Luke May, M., Celine and the Fairchilds.[[/underlined]] Fine weather, pleasant day.  [[red underlined]] Jeans [[/red underlined]] is only in the early fifties and looks even younger. [[red underlined]] Talks about mutual friends in England, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in scientific circles. [[/red underlined]]
[[underlined]] April 6 [[/underlined]] (Sunday)  Letter writing
[[underlined]] April 7. [[/underlined]] Sent a telegram to [[red underlined]] Dr. H.W. Welch [[/red underlined]] on account of the [[underlined]]celebration [[/underlined]] of his 80th anniversary, which is being honored in Washington. Heard ^[[all]] the speeches over the Radio [[strikethrough]] well [[/strikethrough]] eminently deserved honor for [[strikethrough]] a useful life of a [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] an eminently useful career of a great man of extraordinary brain and noble character [[/red underlined]]