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St. Croix 20.

3, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] -9, Aleocharinae -2), 2 [[underlined]] Tetracha [[/underlined]], 5 Sphaeridiinae, 7 [[underlined]] Aphodius  [[/underlined]], and ants.
From here we rode southward past Sight Estate and back to Christiansted past Lowry Hill.
We stopped at the Ice Cream parlor, but they had only "fruit" ice cream. It was only fair. I got home after dark.
Tonight we had been invited (second hand) to a dance, but. Ruth didn't care to go when she has never even met the hostess. Miss Fleming went and got home about 3 A.M. 
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Tried to start early to go out again with Beatty, but didn't get to Christiansted till about 10. We went southeast past Lowry Hill to Petronella Estate, then across to Great Pond.
[[underlined]] Station 328. [[/underlined]] 
1/4 mile north of Great Pond; 4 miles southwest of Christiansted. From dung took 34 Staphs [[underlined]] Oxytelus [[/underlined]]- 10, [[underlined]] Philonthus [[/underlined]] - 19, Lorinota-group - 4, other Aleocharinae - 1), 6 Carabidae, 7 Sphaeridiinae, 1 Histeridae, 13 [[underlined]] Aphodius [[/underlined]], and 1 larva. [[insertion]] Also 1 large Scarabaeid. [[/insertion]]
[[underlined]] Station 329. [[/underlined]] 
Beach at Great Pond Bay; 1/2 mile south of sta. 328. From under seaweed took 1 [[underlined]] Cafius [[/underlined]], 1 Byrrhid, 5 minute beetles, and an ant.
At a place just below Lowry Hill, Beatty shot 

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a pair of small Banana Quicks (honey creepers) for me to take to Wetmore. We then went back for lunch at Mr. Beatty's home. This is at Constitution Hill, about 2 miles west of Christiansted. His father was there, and I think his Mother did the cooking specially, though I didn't meet her. We had a very delicious meal.
Beatty showed me some books and papers on West Indian birds, and we discussed the use by ornithologists of the word "endemic". They use it to mean [[underlined]] restricted to [[/underlined]] rather than merely [[underlined]] native [[/underlined]]. When we got back to the hospital we skinned the birds, making one complete skin and one complete skeleton. Beatty made the skin, as I haven't had much experience at it. 
I got home before dark, and met Mr. & Mrs. Albert Fleming. (See Ruth's journal.)
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Friday The Thirteenth. Spent the morning writing letters to Danforth and the Chief of Police in St. Thomas. Also counted the specimens of last three days and brought the Collecting Notes up to date. Worked a little more on the MS.
The SS Mary came in at 4 P.M., and we received Second Class mail and a notice of a parcel held in Washington for 3 cents postage!