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[[margin]] IX-26-36 [[/margin]] Packed a great many shells for Ruth, and then finished packing the box of things to be sent home. It must weight thirty pounds.
Went to Gov't offices to see Mr. Langley. He promised to send over a letter of introduction to St. Kitts. Mr. Archer gave me a nice large (though old) map of Antigua.
After lunch I worked on the index of this journal. Roberts came up to say that they were piling lumber around the motorcycle crate and it might be hard to get out on Monday. I went down to Brysons and found out that it was a false alarm. They had had sense enough to keep the crate in the open.
Ruth went out after tea to play bridge, and I worked again on the index. After dinner Mr. Frost had some people in to play bridge, so the rest of us played Mah Jong till midnight. Forgot to say the macaw was found this morning several blocks away!
The photographs came back today. The ones taken from Shirley Heights are good, also the ones Ruth took from the cathedral. Several are slightly spotted with mildew and one shows the clouded background that is supposed to be "spoiled" film.
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[[margin]] IX-27-36 [[/margin]] Sunday. Our last 'free' day here. Didn't really start packing, but got things assembled ready, and labelled some rocks and sand samples.
In the afternoon, Ruth went again to see someone's stamp collection, and I went over to see Mr. Forrest again. He told me that he is unable to date the beds from which we got samples at Weatherill Point. These beds tilt down to the west, and farther out there is a small anticline of chert - believed to the definitely lower Oligocene. He is not acquainted with the coral bed.
He told me of the British naturalist-party that we had previously heard came here on a British man-of-war, There was just one man and an assistant - Totten,  a marine biologist of some sort. He also spoke of the entomologist with the Barbados-Antigua Expedition of the University of Iowa in 1918. It was Dayton Stoner. I do not know of him. The general account of the trip was published by C.C. Nutting as "Barbados-Antigua Expedition..." U. Iowa Studies in Nat. Hist., VIII, (3), 1919. Some of the scientific accounts were published in the same series. 
Mr. Forrest promised to send over some samples of marls, etc. for Foraminifera.
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