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was burned in 1920 and rebuilt in 1922, so this Museum which we saw was the result of collection during the last 10 or 15 years. It wasn't bad at all. Of course Urich is only interested in the zoological things so we were given a good taste of that. I got a fleeting glimpse of the few historical things - there didnt seem to be many. Some of the pictures of former governors were good. I specially liked the one of McGreggor - in Scot's costume - They are now getting together the bat collection and I think it will be quite good when it is finished. The bats I've seen flying around seem so much bigger than the ones in the display, but that was probably my imagination working Prof Urich invited us down to see the live bats in cages, at the lab. The collection of birds eggs seemed to be of special interest to Urich, but the mounted birds were not.
We worked a little on stamps in the evening, but I was pretty sleepy so I went to bed early.
[[underlined]] Tuesday, December 31, 1935 [[/underlined]]
Here it is the last day of this year.

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Dick got up early and went out with Pound.
I was told yesterday that Boxing day is the day when people put all their Christmas presents back in the boxes (it hardly seems that this can be the only reason for the name)
This morning as I was sitting writing I couldn't help but hear the conversations in the next room. I am amazed at the ignorance of some people about matters of common knowledge. Even such popular newspaper copy as the Dionne quintuplets received their unjust due. The conversationalists seemed undecided whether the quints lived in Canada or Illinois.
Ismay wont be with us after to-day. She claims Miss Huggins objected to her bringing me my hot water last evening - I dont exactly believe this - but for some reason or other she was "sacked". As she has been pretty good and conscientious I'll give her a little tip before she leaves.
I just now happened to think of an interesting discovery I made in the Museum