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by his superior from attempting to build up a good collection. Saw nothing of special interest. What little they have was got together by C. C. Gowdey before he left. We spent the afternoon at 5 Cargill Ave., getting the sheet out and ready and filling the lantern. After tea took supper in box and went back to Hope garden to hang sheet. Found a good looking place but the collecting was poor except for leaf hoppers. Went across aqueduct (here it was so low that we could step or jump over it) into the low ground for more fireflies. We stumbled onto a freshly felled tree in the dark and found a few tenebrionids and longicorns (Chlorida sp.) on its trunk. Went back to the sheet and found that the flight was about over so we picked up and went home. Ruth and the Woolers had gone to the movies and we were locked out. After waiting three-quarters of an hour for them to come home, I noticed that I could slip through one of the sidelights (which were unlocked through oversight) and so we were in. Bed about 11.30 PM. 
Feb. 6. Mrs Wooler packed a big lunch for us and we started fairly early for Bath in St Thomas. Our road runs along

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Old fort near Harbour Head

the coast from Kingston, first through the gate of the old fort, now used as a military prison, then by the Pan-American Airways landing basin (all planes stopping at Kingston are amphibians) and finally into open country. Our first stop for collecting was a few miles this side of White Horses, where we saw a large tree recently cut down. It was a fine Tropic Birch about eighteen inches in diameter. The natives called it a "Budge gum", probably a corruption of birch gum. Its technical name is Bursera gummifera. Its bark was just beginning to loosen