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[[start page]] 16. 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. [[end page]] [[start page]] 17 August 21 Still raining very hard. No chance for field work. Ground up hammers and chisels and wrote letters. [[end page]]