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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning.  Dress and go down town early.  Meet Pierce on the bridge with a Mr. Loan.  Over the hill meet Hubbard with Mr. Kellogg. Going further on meet Dr. Stone, all out enjoying the beautiful morning.  Down to the Captains and make a short call there, and then start for church.  Meet Mr. Stebbins and walk up with him. Sit in Mr. Lows pew.  Have a good sermon. After dinner go up to Stearns' and spend the afternoon.  Stay to dinner. Go down with Stearns to Bacons, and on the way meet Wetherbee, Childs, and a friend of his. Call there and then go down to the Consuls, where I meet Mr. & Mrs. [[Imarc?]] + Lottie.

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 12 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Early breakfast. Down town call on Col. Bulkley, speak about Rothrock and Elliott. Go up to Dr. Paines he is out, call on Stearns. Go down to the Survey Rooms and work all day copying notes from Coopers book of Carpenters Supplementary Report on the West Coast shells into my interleaved Smithsonian Check list. Stearns comes in and borrows my first Report on the W. C. Shells. After dinner Caldwell comes down with a note from Col. Bulkley. Evening, go up town with Capts Marton and Harding. Call on old Rowell who gives me some shells and after ward on Stearns where I finish the P.M.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 13 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Show Tectarius coronata which has survived four years drought; to Col. Bulkley and speak to him about Caldwell and reps. to dredges. Call at Stearns office and see Brooks and Van Vleck. Down to Locke & Montagues and see about dredges, &c. Get a side of leather for dredge and meet Dr. Ayres. Ride up to Geolog. office. Go & look for nets and don't find any. Work over Trochiscus Norrissii and prove it to be a trochid & not proboscidean. Down to the vessel and work over some shells. After dinner dress and go up for Miss Hapgood and dance at Lursth all the evn
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[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Down Town. Step in to the office and into Stearns office Go down to Locke and Montagues but find the foreman out. Go to Henri Payots and look over Dore's Illustrated Bible. Down to Dr. Trasks and borrow his microscope. Leave it at Stearns' and down to L. + M's. again, all out. Leave micr. at Cookes, to lunch with Stearns and down to Post office + Robisons with him. Down to Survey Rooms and work. Up to L. & Ms. + leave orders. Down to the Gate to dine and up town after dinner. Call at Lows, leave pants at Tailors, walk to church with ames. Leave cards at Mrs. Whittemores, call on Mrs Stebbins and on Mrs Taylor.

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 15 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Down to Dr. Ayres' and get sharks jaw. Call at the office and into Stearns' office and down to Hubbards' but the mail is not yet distributed. Down to Locke & Montagues and get bill of seives &c. Go to Survey Rooms and write to Cooper + father. Letters from home tell of the death of Grandma Dall from nervous prostration, the result of a severe fright. Go aboard and dress to go over to Black Point to see Mrs. Gen. M'Dowell, down to the Captains and conclude not to go over. Call at the Noyes', see Mrs. N. + Willie, call on Bolandea who is out, on Miss Hapgood, also out. Go out to Mrs Lewises and spend part of the evening, meet a Miss Abbott there + see her home. 

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY 16 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Down town with seives &c to Locke and Montagues. Meet the Consul going down town and walk with him part way. Work at the tin shop nearly all day wiring two dredges and leave the boy wiring the third. Down to Hubbards and find nothing, but go down to the Survey Rooms. Write to Mother and Geo. C. Walker. Down to Tel. office find it locked & meeting Stearns go down to dinner with him. After dinner go down to the Consuls and up to Mrs. de Ro's, where I find Charlotte & Olga - and spend the P.M. 

Transcription Notes:
On Monday, has he written Marton or Marston? -- He does not make any other 's' letters in this fashion. Marton is probably the correct spelling. On Tuesday, is it Srochiscus or Trochiscus? - Trochiscus Norrisii (he spelled it wrong) are superfamily and genus names in the scientific classification system