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Spent the brief afternoon (2 - 4 o'clock) counting and putting away specimens. After tea went to a cocktail party at the home of Mr Langley - Attorney General and Acting Colonial Secretary. It was a small party and I talked to only one person - Mr Moore of the Factory. He is an American, late of Puerto Rico, and is chemist at the sugar factory. Mrs Mason once wondered why they had gotten an American and paid him so much. They evidently had sense enough to want a [[underline]] good [[/underline]] man and were willing to pay to get one. Nowhere have we heard of any good English sugar chemists. He is much interested in the [[underline]] Lynophaga [[/underlined]] fly control of sugar cane borer and is running the breeding experiments in lieu of any entomologist. Mrs Moore is to leave tomorrow for a vacation in the States. She is from Portland, Oregon. Mr Moore invited me to come out to the factory and see the laboratory. They drove us home in time for dinner.

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Today was fairly clear but I didn't feel like going out. Had a slight ache behind my eyes, and suspect it is due to the bright sunlight. It is especially blinding in the early morning. 
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Spent the day at index cards, washing stamps with Ruth, writing this journal and reading. H.G. Wells' book. Wrote letters to Siepmann (to acknowledge a box of Staphs sent to the Museum) and the American Vice Consul at Martinique ^[[insertion]] Mr.V.H.Blocker [[/insertion]] (to ask him to inquire about my glasses) Also typed the one to [[Achser?]] and one to Edmonds, ordering new glasses. Sent these off with the proof. In the afternoon Ruth went with Mrs. Mason, Addie Ray and Mr. Frost to visit a distillery. I mailed a letter to Mother and Daddy at New York and two cards to Mrs. Willis. One was from Ruth about some shoes, the other from me about change of schedule and glasses. 

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Rather overcast today. I didn't go out so it didn't rain! I worked on cards and then decided that it would be rather worth while not to put my cards in the file until they had been checked [[strikethrough]] by an [[/strikethrough]] back with the publication for errors and omissions. If this is ever to be done, it should be done before the file gets any larger, as it involves sorting all cards over by authors for the check and then back into the file again. I can start now with the papers I catalogue here. Mark it thus [[circled]] SRB [[/circled]]= checked.