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Montserrat 10. At lunch Sir Gerald gave me his card, and hoped we would find him at Cambridge. He says it is just 55 miles from London-- 1 1/2 hours by train. As it was still [[dear?]] Ruth decided to accompany me out collecting. It's the first time she's been out with me on Montserrat, and the first time I've been out twice in one day. [[new line]][[underlined]] Station 270. [[/underlined]] [[new line]]Same as Station 262. From dung took 125 Staphs ([[underlined]] Onytelus [[/underlined]]-1, Paederinae-2, Xantholininal-12, [[underlined]] Philonthus[[/underlined]]-7, [[underlined]] Aleochara [[/underlined]]-80, other Aleocharinae-23), 1 Carabid, 2 Sphaeridiinae, 1 Histerid, 115 [[underlined]] [[Aphod-?]] [[/underlined]], 15 Coprinae, and 3 weevils. Island total 782. We got back for tea, and spent the rest of the afternoon talking about how we could live if we shouldn't get a job at the Museum. [[New line]] [[VII-25-36 in margin]] I felt rather tired and listless today, and a little of my feed, so I took a vacation. We spent much of the day on stamps, -washing, sorting, and cataloguing them. [[new line]] At 3 P.M. the S.S. Lady Hawkins came in from Antigua. Just after tea we received two huge parcels of mail. One contained the papers from Sherman, and the other magazines, etc. I got 5 [[Sainces?]], an [[Ent.?]] News, a [[Revistade Ent.?]], etc., etc. Mr. True of the S.I. sent me a copy of the Govt. [[end page]] [[start page]] Printing Office style manual. Also got letters from the [[?]] Cays', Pete [[Tring?]], Ian Moore, etc. An unusually large lot of ads and announcements. Couldn't do anything all evening except look at these. There were only two other boarders here, and one of them left on this boat. The other one is going out [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] on the Lady Nelson with us. [[new line]] In the evenings we've taken quite a few beetles about lights in the hotel. This is [[new line]] [[underlined]] Station 271. [[/underlined]] [[new line]] Coconut Hill Hotel, Plymouth, Montserrat. Taken about lights in the evenings of last two weeks. Scarabs, Carabids, Bostrychids, etc., etc. [[new line]] [[VII-26-36 in margin]] Since the trunk has to be packed by tea-time today, we spent most of the morning on it. The things we mailed back to Washington the other day barely made room for the extra magazines, etc. we'll send another package from Antigua, and it will probably be a large and heavy one. After lunch I went down to pack the motorcycle. Had the same man that helped me unpack it. Things were in fairly good shape, and it took just an hour and a half altogether. [[new line]] After tea we hired a car to take us to call on the Wildons. They live about two miles from town. They were in and we had a pleasant