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Friday, Mar. 9 cont'd.  We left at 7.35 because we wished to get there about an hour before low tide.  Got in later about 8 oclock, collected till about 11.  Got what we could from rocks carried ashore.  Fenner holding dip net (under rocks) got several dark porcellainid crab with red finger tips, as water ran off picked up rocks, of course natives came by to see what we were doing and one whom I told we'd buy shrimp, went up F.W. stream flowing down to beach, got in quite a number mostly small, and two fish.  We also got 2 flat-worms, one [[?]] and tiny sponges and amphipods, and an iso or two.  Also 3 little xanthid crabs.  Got home for lunch, sorted specimens;  and in mid afternoon Greenhall came by to show us his museum, but first took us out to Yacht Club to talk of delivery of alcohol ordered form Unital, then to get mail, (that's when I got your letter I believe.  This is all being written late afternoon of 3d.  Museum has living beehive which local Agri. Dept. looks after and a colony of leaf cutting ants, - most interesting.  Said Schroeder of San Diego zoo wanted to import some but that both State & U.S. Dept. Agri. refused permits.  Is interested in bats and wants literature.  Has, or rather has seen and tells us he can get us some very large stomalofish. Showed us a giant tadpole ^[[
p.20 that grows up to become (shrinks) a rather small frog, Pseudus [[underlined]] paradoxus. [[/underlined]]  Promises us  

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that [[?]] [[?]] another small frog [[underlined]] Pseudus paradoxys. 
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We left at 7.35.  promises us sort [[?]] the tadpoles [[?for]] [[?]] 
Wished to get there about an hour before low tide.
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[[underline]]Saturday March at 8 o'clock[[/underline]] collected till about to [[?11.30.]]  Got what we could from rocks carried ashore.  Freelance at [[?]] dock at 11 oclock [[?]]
Fenner holding dip net got several dark porcellainids, fish, near from same place at [[?]] so we could [[?]]
red-finger tips, as water ran off picked up rocks of  
[[?stow]] [[?]] to make room for alcohol.
Of course natives came by to see what we were doing, and one whom we told we'd buy shrimp went up
When we got to dock at 10 Freelance was nowhere to be seen.  

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page 20 seems to be the same as page 19 - almost like it's been blotted on or something, as sentences aren't coherent. Discontinuing transcription of page 20 as it doesn't make any sense. I think page 19 tells the story.