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[[Stamped page number 94 [[/stamp]] Trinidad 28.

[[left margin note]] XII-18-35 [[/margin note]] Up at six-fifteen and just managed to get a dish of cornflakes for breakfast, and an orange and piece of cheese for lunch. Pound arrived at quarter to seven and we stopped at the Union Club to pick up the Dept. Agriculture Mycologist--Frank Stell. We drove to Sangre Grande and then down the Eastern Main Road. Stopped to pick up another man in the rain and proceeded to look up certain cocoa plants on various estates. The first one was so flooded that we couldn't reach it. We passed through Upper Manzanilla and turned to the right on Plum Road. Followed this to the junction with the Plum Mitan Road and followed the latter--five miles in all.
[[underline]] Station 102. [[/underline]]
One-half mile from Manzanilla junction on the Plum Road. A cocoa grove, very wet and in the rain. In black pods found three or four species ^[[(8)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] of Staph,--much same as on Sunday.
[[underline]] Station 103. [[/underline]]
About five miles ^[[south]] southwest of Manzanilla junction on the Plum Mitan Road. A low and very wet cocoa grove. Found a large 
[[margin note, written in black ink]] A [[/margin note]] series of ^[[(64)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Staphs in rotten pods and those that were ripe but had been cut into in picking,--exposing the seeds.
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I suspect there were at least a dozen species. Several like [[underline]] Brachydirus[[/underlien]], a [[underline]]Philanthus, etc. Also many Nitidulids and other beetles. Some were taken by sweeping over the piles of fruit. There are also a few Forficulids. One of the men brought me a small white fungus that 
[[note in margin, written in black ink]]] B [[/margin note]] contained several very tiny ^[[((1)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] Staphs.
Went back to Plum Road and then west and north to an estate [[underline]] north [[/underline]] of Carata Hill. It was raining hard so I stayed in the car while the others took the umbrellas and raincoats and went to see the trees. Then we doubled back onto the Plum Road to a government farm just [[underline]] south [[/underline]] of Carata Hill. [[strikethrough]]Here [[/strikethrough]]
[[underline]] Station 104. [[/underline]]
Five miles ^[[west-]] [[insertion written in pencil]] southwest of Manzanilla junction on the Plum Road (three miles ^[[north]] [[insertion written in pencil]] north ^[[-west]] [[insertion written in pencil]]of Sta. 103). 
[[note in margin, written in black ink]] A [[/note]] A well-drained cocoa grove on a hill. Took another fine series of Staphs ^[[(13)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] in black pods. Also several Histerids and Coprinae. Then 
[[note in margin, written in black ink]] B [[/note]] tried a very rotten log. Found only roaches and larvae at first, but later one [[underline]]Passalus and eight or ten fine Osoriinae, ^[[(10)]] [[insertion written in pencil]] over a half inch in length. Also one or two small Staphs. Under bark I found a 
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single small Staph. ^[[(Lost)]] [[insertion written in pencil]]
We had lunch here, and Pound traded me some sandwiches for some cheese. Sufficient.
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