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Took them all back to N.Y at Chemists Club there met [[underline]] Whitaker [[/underline]] and took him to his [[strikethrough]] hous [[/strikethrough]] apartment on my return to Yonkers
April 21 Afternoon met Kirk [[underline]] Brown and Frank Dyer [[/underline]] and Townsend and Frederick Fish and Dubois and [[strikethrough]] Al [[/strikethrough]] Aylsworth and Hasslacher Settled matters ^for license^ and went to [[German?]] Club with Hasslacher then home at 12 M
April 22 - Went to Washington
First met Hamlin at office of G.B.Co then met [[underline]] Porter of Royal Baking Powder [[/underline]] Co then noon train with Celine for Washington arrived at 6:30 P.M at Washington. Went to see a play Ben Hur At Club met Dr. Edward Weston.  Dr. Given and Professor Cattell and kept

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at it, talking it over till after midnight
April 23. [[underline]] Washington [[/underline]]. I was a guest at the [[underline]] Celebration of the fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the National Academy of Sciences [[/underline]]. Went [[strikethrough]] to hear [/strikethrough]] to [[strikethrough]] lectu [[/strikethrough]] meeting at National Museum.  Professor Kapteyn of Holland gave a lecture on Astronomy.  Evening there was a reception at Carnegie Institute met Dr. Woodward the president of institute. also Dr. Weir Michell, who looks very old and escorted us thru one of the rooms where photographs of the work of the Institute were exhibited. Splendid gathering of great scientific men. [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] Am much bothered with my sore toe which makes me limp considerably. Afterwards complying with an invitation

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Frederick Fish was a patent lawyer who advised Baekeland. Baekeland is associated with the "Chemists Club" Prof.J.C. Kapteyn astronomer from Groningen, Holland