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having a splendid time.  251 meteorites to date plus 5 or six in McM   11:10 P.M. & not quite retired. A breeze is setting in.

[[underlined]] Sunday, January 10 [[/underlined]]
The breeze heightened. The light streamer of cirrus I saw converging north meant something again. Then AM I lay listening to the wind. I judged it not so severe as Friday, but enough to keep us home. Yet at 8:20 we heard John outside. He said "knock knock". "I don't know if we'll go out today -- the wind is still up -- but I thought I'd wake you up anyway." I laughed. But was glad to get up. Had coffee & oatmeal but found it hard to rouse Ghislaine. She has an upset stomach this morning. Indeed, she threw up while I was in the privy. Hasn't been eating enough? Or right? And has same neck trouble today. Fortunately, no one else may ever have to know. The wind kept up all A.M. & P.M.

I worked a little on my Lowell Lecture and gave some thought to my class. Had a rather heavy lunch. Bread & Peanut butter. A chicken leg. A bite of left over lamb. Early in PM I felt sleepy & crawled in. Slept until ~5:15. At 5:30 Bob came outside & 

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greeted us. He said the wind had stopped and he and John were thinking of going over to Man Haul Bay to visit the paleontologists after supper. I told him we would let them go unaccompanied this time. It seemed quite an

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