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[[preprinted]] 72 [[/preprinted]] Antigua 49.

Spent the afternoon counting specimens and putting them away. In the evening we played Mah Jong. 
   The SS Lady Hawkins came in from the south. 
[[margin]] IX-22-36 [[/margin]] A rainy day. Wrote a letter to Danforth. Words: ...giving consideration to..., 
[[save?]]-conscious, used to be, life (of rubber, etc.), awful, -ly, ought to, spell (time), regarding, certain (number or amount), implementing, regularized, conjunctive (marketing), pretty, perfect, angles, tending to indicate, poultrician, to hoax, civilization (w.w.), politicians (w.w.), authorities (w.w.), chockful, couple, scientific (w.w.), sensational (w.w.), eventual, fruitless, capitalize, funnily, glamorize, famous (w.w.), amazing, genuine (w.w.), Germanize. 
[[margin]] IX-23-36 [[/margin]] Wrote the monthly report for Montserrat. Will put it with the Antigua one later. 
   After lunch Ruth and I rode out to the Fort to collect shells. We spent two hours, and got a nice bunch - chiefly very small ones. 
   Caught a bug flying over the sand. This is [[underlined]] station 289 [[/underlined]] again. 
   In the evening we played Mah Jong. 
[[margin]] IX-24-36 [[/margin]] Ruth and I rode out to Five Islands Estate. We talked to Mr. Raeburn a while, then floundered through the mud to Little Bay. We stayed there till after twelve, finding a great
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many shells. Many of these are different from the ones taken here the other day. 
   Rain in the afternoon. We expected Mr. Raeburn to drop in, but he didn't. I sorted the shells. 
Played bridge in the evening. 
[[margin]][[strikethrough]] IX-25-36 [[/strikethrough]][[/margin]]
[[strikethrough]] Before [[/strikethrough]] Stopped once in morning to collect. 
[[underlined]] Station 292. [[/underlined]]
Near Little Bay, Five Islands Estate. From dung took 159 Staphs [[underlined]] (Oxytelus [[/underlined]] - 152, Paederinae - 2, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 2, Aleocharinae - 2), 8 Sphaeridiinae, 122 [[underlined]]  Aphodius [[/underlined]]. 
[[underlined]] Station 293 [[/underlined]]
Little Bay beach, Five Islands Estate.  Under rubbish on beach found 2 Tenebrionids.
[[underlined]] Station 294. [[/underlined]]
Five Islands Estate House. From dung took 4 Staphs ([[underlined]] Oxytelus [[/underlined]] - 1, Xantholininae - 2, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 1), 1 Histerid, 1 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]].
[[margin]] IX-25-36 [[/margin]] Wrote the monthly report for Antigua. The Staphs now total 15,000 (1700 for Antigua). There was a Furness boat in from the north, - it is the SS Burgos. Ruth went up to the cathedral to take some [[underlined]] photos [[/underlined]] of the town. 
   Mrs. Mason's macaw flew across the street and refused to come down. He was left there for the night!