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Road fairly good but not much traveled.  Saw 3 graves by road, one of W.M. Stadley, the others unnamed.
Saw Coyote & Fox tracks all along.  Holes of Dipodomys deserti are common most of way.  Saw some Tamias tracks.  Saw a lot of insects - grasshoppers, ants, beetles, 2 kinds of butterflies, a wasp, a "cut worm," mosquitos, flies, gnats.  Along ^[[insertion]] W. [[/insertion]] side of valley the vegetation is better than in Panamint Valley.  
Nelson & I each set 30 traps before dark.  I got 2 small lizzards.  Nelson killed a big one.  Saw birds of 6 species.

[[underlined]] Jan. 21 [[/underlined]]  Caught 4 D. deserti & 3 Neotomas.  Nelson got the same & 2 Hesperomes & fished a Neotoma & a Dipodemys & a snake & scorpion out of one of the wells.  Set traps, made up skins -
Palmer & party came along at 2:30   37[[degree symbol]] at 6:30.  75[[degree symbol]] at 1. Pleasant.

[[underlined]] Jan. 22 [[/underlined]] Nelson caught a little Spermophile, nothing else new taken.  Palmer & party moved on to Furnace Creek. With our party are Nelson, Dikeman & Coville, our cook & myself.  31[[degree symbol]] in morning, a warm day, hazy in P.M.

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Reviewed. Added in [[end page]] markup at top, corrected species names & typos. Added in insertion markup in line with Smithsonian archives request -@siobhanleachman