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[[symbol of circle topped by cross in top left margin]] [[symbol in top left margin]] # 138 and starving. How long! how long! This is a [[red underline]] war of extermination. [[/red underline]] and all these people call themselves [[red underline]] christians, [[/red underline]] and pray God when they fight! - [[red underline]] What an abberation [[/red underline]]--or what a [[red underline]] cruel Humbug! [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] I spent 3 hours I made [[/strikethrough]] I dictated short history of our work [[strikethrough]] for Royal [[/strikethrough]] on the Glyoxylic-tartaric process. and amended further the [[red underline]] Hooter-Kanto Contract [[/red underline]] Charge 3 hour R.B.P. Co. " [[ditto for: Charge]] 2 " [[ditto for: hour]] Hooker [[left margin: symbol of circle topped with cross]] 3 hours # 2 hours [[/left margin]] Weather rather chilly. [[margin, underlined]] Oct. 27. [[/margin, underline]] Home all day. Windy and cool but sunny day. [[margin]] Oct. 28. [[/margin]] Ditto. [[margin]] Oct 29. [[/margin]] Here all morning. Afternoon went out and took long walk in Riverside Park [[strikethrough]] then [[/strikethrough]] from 116th station to University [[end page]] [[start page]] 139 Club. Do not feel tired at all. At [[red underline]] University Club Mr. Bridges [[/red underline]] Editor of Scribner's Magazine expressed his praise about [[red underline]] my Chandler Lecture, [[/red underline]] more particularly about the part referring to fraction of atmospheric nitrogen. He [[red underline]] asks me to write for Scribner's [[/red underline]] Magazine an article on the same subject of about [[red underline]] 7000 words [[/red underline]] for which he is willing to pay. Afterwards took supper with Mr. Benedict, a mining engineer whom first I took for Mr. DeMorest and who invited a certain Mr. Lillie of Philadelphia, an expert in evaporation apparatus. They spoke about potash [[extraction]] in California from saline Lakes Afterwards met [[red underline]] Mali [[/red underline]] and talked with him till 11.P.M. [[strikethrough]] He st [[/strikethrough]] mainly about Belgian Relief work. Home [[with ?]] 11:40 P.M