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Evening excellent smoker  Good singing then afterwards session of Section 9 and reading of parodies of scientific paper.  Got my little roast on Bakelite and Velox together with many other members  All very witty, very clever and tactful.  One of the best things I ever witnessed.  Ledbury the moving spirit of all this.
May 7.  I find that [[underlined]] notwithstanding my protests and the letters [[/underlined]] I have written and published declining election,  I have been elected by a considerable majority.  In fact I have been elected for almost any office since I told I preferred a less important
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office but declined considering I would not refuse without becoming an obstructionist so I accepted gracefully stating that those of my friends who had voted for me shared my own responsibilities  A few moments later I found that my photographs together with other with other electrochemic celebrities Dr. Katsura, Prof. [[Takis?]] Japan and Ernesto Strassano of Turin (electrometalling of steel were publicly for sale [[underlined]] (on Velox cards!) [[/underlined]]  Three for 25 cents!  Lunched with Dubois of Roessler Haslacher and Bancroft and a few others  Then spent afternoon at Development & Funding Co.
[[1/2 X in margin]] (charge 1/2 day).  In the evening
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