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[[preprinted]] FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Get ready medicine for Dwyer. Down town and into office Sign receipt for Scientific outfit in full. Into Stearns' office and talk over matters and things about Academy matters &c. Down to Keiths, inquire as to progress &c and over to Survey Rooms. Work with Ijams all day over Monterey paper. Stearns comes in during the day. Go up to Dr. Kelloggs, see Bloomer See Keith again. Go to Bancrofts. Up to Cosmopolitan, dine with Clarence King, and go to his room in the Pioneer Building and pass the ev.

[[preprinted]] SATURDAY 5. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Down town, stop at the office. See Lewis and get some paper from Wright. Stop at Lorquins and get some shells for the Doctor. Stop in to Bradley & Rulofsens and see Whymper. Up to Academy Rooms and look at cases which are now painted Down to Hubbards and get pkge of books from the Smithsonian including Carpenters Reports. Down to Survey Rooms work till two oclock when I start down with Stearns. Stop at Robisons and go over to see Dr. Newcomb who is called off very soon after we get there. Dine & pass eveng at Stearns.

[[preprinted]] SUNDAY 6 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Dress and go up town early. [[Joe?]] Lane cutter laying alongside. Col. Bulkley and Mumford are to make the tour of the fleet today. Walk up to Mr Lows neither he nor Ames is yet returned. Down to Stebbins, to get introduction to Macondray. Meet Swain there. Round to church. Stebbins preaches on mans religious opinion as affected by his character. Up to Mrs Lows take lunch. Drive out in the afternoon to the Mission. Back to dinner there. Mrs Low all alone. Pass the evening there
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[[preprinted]] MONDAY, MAY 7, 1866 [[/preprinted]]
Morning raw and disagreeable. Work with Frittzs Caldwell, and Ijams over shells; naming and packing a large number of them. After dinner dress and go up town to Court Room with John Norton who acts as a witness in the Winant oyster case. Go to Payots. Find Chenn has arrived, but is not yet out of the Custom House. Round to Keiths after Dr. Trasks eggs but they can't be found. See Dayley who looks well and hearty. Round to Stearns office where we have a meeting of the California Academy of Natural Sciences.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 8 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Down town with Frittzs. Meet Mrs. de Ro very unexpectedly on Sutter Street. Stop at the office [[strikethrough]] very unexpectedle [[/strikethrough]] for a moment. See Stearns go round to Academy Rooms for a minute get out a set of plant papers for Miss Richie. Old Fisk comes buzzing about. Down to Survey Rooms See Dr. Horn, who comes back from Arizona with lots of beetles, &c. Write there all day. Talk over Carpenter with Prof. Whitney. Evening, Go up to Mr. Stebbins and get a note to Macondray. Down to Mrs de Ros. Hettie there, Olga & Pussie, all with colds. 

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 9 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Down town with Frittzs. Stop at office. Chappel got back from B. Columbia Into Stearns office. Down to Mr. Macondrays and arrange about sending box to father. Into Hubbards get letters.  Aunt Etta dead! of gastric fever. Look out for Canfields thermometer. See Bloomer, Kellogg & Lancey. Into Survey Rooms. Work all day at Monterey paper & letters. See Jack about thermometer Ashburner down. See Hepburn. Down to dine with Stearns. Down to ship and work over box.

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Ambrosia: minor edits. FYI Transcription Centre only requires [[end page]] [[start page]] notations when going from one page to next. Unnecessary at very start or end. Stearns = Robert Edward Carter Stearns Changed + to & Entered space between [[preprinted]] and text to improve searchability