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Sta. #1

March 9.  Coll. Maracas Bay, Trinidad.
Low tide.
Shrimp from [[?tin.]] #2 bay by native.

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from Trinidad, and has left appropriate gaps in the series he has numbered in accordance with Kays Rhopalocera of the [[strikethrough]] West Isles [[/strikethrough]] Trinidad, to which island his collection is confined.  Because he has raised most of his specimens, they are unusually perfect.

He is quite an important customs official, and has a sizeable family, though a very young looking wife, - a [[strikethrough]] girl [[/strikethrough]] Spanish gir originally from Colombia.  He is French [[male symbol]] they have 8 children, 6 girls, oldest 10 or 8, and youngest couple of years, 2 boys, both youngsters.  He joked and said while he was collecting butterflies she was collecting children.

Met Blake of M.I.T. at lecture he's down here on a Fulbright.  Fenner knows him well from Boston days, and of course the colored president of local natural history society who referred to the Smithsonian Institution of Physical Culture, (al'a Barry Hampton) in case of other thing.  Barry alwas got our Institution straight (even if he did [[?dozzle]] a few things he know little about)

March 9th Friday, our first and only collecting in Trinidad other than 3 soil samples.  We took an auto over to Maracas Beach where we were told we'd find a bit of rocky shore.  It took us about half an hour to get there.