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Monday August 20

Raining in torrents.

Packed two boxes of specimens and attended to correspondence.  Wrote last week to Mr. Mathew telling him that I could not find any fossils on his Etchminian. Received a letter today from him to day stating that he was not suprised that I did not find them, that they were very rare. Said they were in the sandy beds of the shale. Shall make another search for them.  

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August 21

Still raining very hard. 

No chance for field work.

Ground up hammers and chisels and wrote letters. 

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