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[[stamped page number]] 40 [[end stamp]] Guadaloupe 8.
[[left margin note]] X-28-35 [[end margin note]] Today we stayed at home. Ruth had a cold and stayed in bed all day to keep warm. Wrote letters to Ferrie, Reineck, Darlington, Adamson. Managed to catch a few things in flowers.
[[underlined]]Station 73.[[/underlined]]
Same as Sta. 69. On flowers, one large weevil like a [[underlined]] diaprepes. [[/underlined]] Under rotting pussa ^[[?]] leaves, two [[underlined]] Metamasius [[/underlined]]weevils, and a couple of [[strikethrough]]S [[/strikethrough]] small beetles. In flowers also four of the long slender Staph-like Nitidulids.
Did quite a bit of discussing of the new schedule, and some speculating as to how finances will work out.
[[left margin note]] X-29-35 [[end margin note]] Started out to do some collecting after breakfast. "Gin," the dog went with me. Went about a kilometer east of Matouba, where I found a sort of [[margin note in black ink]] [[underscore]]Photo #37 [[/underscore]]
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savannah on the right bank of one of the branches of La Riviere Rouge.
In rather 
[[margin note in black ink]] A [[end margin note]] old dung I found eight or ten large black [[strikeout]] Melo [[/strikeout]] Scarabs and one [[Aphodine ?]],--also a couple 
[[margin note in black ink]] B [[end margin note]]of Torficulids. In rotten logs, I found only two larvae; in small fungi, nothing; under stones along edge of river, nothing; beating brought down nothing but one or two hoppers and a few spiders; sifting leaf-mold, nothing again. Not a very encouraging morning. The locality was
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[[underline]] Station 74. [[/underline]]
About one kilometer ^[[north-]] east of Matouba. Elevation 2500 ft.
I came back early and wrote a few more letters, including one to Martha. Ruth was typing those I wrote yesterday. We finished these in the afternoon and then drove down to St. Claude to mail them and get stamps. Ruth got some extras for the collection, and then we had another long wait before dinner. Breakfast at seven-eight, lunch at twelve, dinner at seven-thirty. If they'd only have tea, but they don't know the word at all! It would be a fine time to work if it didn't get dark early. The electric lights are just bright enough to enable us to see to light the kerosene lamp provided. We go to bed almost immediately after dinner. 
[[left margin note]] X-30-35 [[end margin note]] After breakfast started out in the car to drive around the southern and eastern parts [[left margin note in black ink]] [[underline]] Photo #39 [[/underline]] [[end margin note]]
of the island. the route was St. Claude, Basse-Terre, Gourbeyre, Trois Rivieres, Capesterre, Goyane, Petit-Bourg, Baie Mahault, Lamentin, Ste. Rose. We stopped to take photographs of Les Saintes at a point on each side of Trois Rivieres. The first {1/25 & 32), the second with palms (1/50 & 22).
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