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life. There are lots of fillers I want to add to that complaining diary, so I hope its double spaced. But surely Miss [[Benats?]] thought of that. I had to telegraph to Sao Paulo about some specimens I have been promised there which I told them to have in readiness for this steamer, but now it will be two weeks delay all around. 

Aside from all disappointments the best thing has happened to me is visiting B.A. And did I tell you I visited the German deep sea exploring steamer the Meteor and had some real good Hamburg beer on board with [[Sh.?]] Hentschel the planktonologist of the Hamburg museum + met the rest of the scientific staff and inspected the ship. They are certainly doing things up [[brown?]] & I never saw so much equipment crammed in so little space.  

Transcription Notes:
jeni92127 (20 Aug 17) reviewed - The letters before "Hentschel" should be "Dr." - Original Transcriber was correct that it was "brown." To "do something up brown"- with great effect.