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St. Croix 24. 

This collecting took me from 10:30 to noon, and I got home at 12:45. It took all afternoon to count these, and my eyes were rather tired when I finished. Ruth did a lot of sorting of stamps, and in the evening I helped her with the duplicates. 

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Stayed in this morning, expecting to go out with Beatty after lunch. It rained a little. Wrote a letter to Mother & Daddy, and started an outline of a "book" on principles of classification. Ruth went to town to send off some gifts to her family for Christmas.  
After lunch I waited till 3 o'clock for Beatty. He finally came and we went to look at a barn heavily infested with bats.  
[[underlined]] Station 332. [[/underlined]] 
Wheel of Fortune Estate, 1/2 mile east of Fredericksted. From bat guano on floor of barn took 22 Staphs [[underlined]] (Oxytelus) [[/underlined]], 9 Hydrophilids, larvae, and ants.  
We then drove back to town, stopped at the ice cream parlor for refreshment, and then explored the road south to the Westend Salt pond. The mosquitoes and sandflies were very bad, so we didn't [[strikethrough]] f [[/strikethrough]] stay. From there back to town and around the circuit about Mars Hill I held a net out for flying things.  

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[[underlined]] Station 333. [[/underlined]] 
Area immediately south of Fredericksted.  By holding an open net above the car took 14 Staphs ([[underlined]] Oxytelus [[/underlined]] - 12, Paederinae - 1, Aleocharinae - 1), 1 Carabid, and 3 Hydrophilids. 
We got back after dark, and Beatty left for home in a light rain, after cleaning a fouled spark plug.  I felt very listless in the evening, and as Ruth was sleepy, we went to bed shortly after eight. 

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Counted specimens taken yesterday, sorted papers, and read some in Liberty and Literary Digest. It rained lightly once or twice.  
Miss Fleming was ill, and Ruth spent quite a bit of time talking to her.  
Worked again on the outline of "A Manual of Systematic Entomology." The main headings are: Training & Background, Acquisition of Material, Preparation of Material, Identification, Morphology, Description of New Species, New Names, Revision of Genera or Higher Groups, Classification, Publication, Curatorial Work. Since I have no reference books, I can only put down what I can think of, and can't hope to be complete. I've started a list of references on the subject, - propose a bibliography for each chapter.