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Lunch served near council room, then resumed meeting various discussions and reports.
[[red underline]] Edison [[/red underline]] presents his bundle of drawings for laboratory and after meeting is over is [[red underline]] besieged by reporters. [[/red underline]]
I took Whitney, Woodward, Capt. Smith, and Riker to University Club where I invited them with Pupin for supper. A very pleasant gathering which broke up about 10:30 then drove home.

Feb 10. Home dictating letters relative to Naval board. [[red underline]] George wired he has passed [[/red underline]] his exams.
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Evening went as a guest to dinner of [[red underline]] Biochemical Society. Prof. McCallum [[/red underline]] of Toronto University was the man in whose honor the dinner was
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given. I was seated at speaker's table next to [[red underline]] Dr. Meltzer. [[/red underline]] Dinner was in ballroom of Majestic. [[red underline]] Meltzer [[/red underline]] appears to me like one of those smiling [[red underline]] smug conceited germans, [[red underline]] who have lived here for a life time and are so one sided, and limited in their methods of life and views that they have not yet been able to learn to speak English correctly. He is particularly [[red underline]] unfriendly to Naval Board, [[/red underline]] possibly because he is not a member of it. I was called upon to speak and spoke about Naval Board and the development of Chemistry in this country. [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]]

Feb 11. This morning early [[red underline]] Sutherland [[/red underline]] came here to tell me that [[red underline]] Paulus is rather prussian [[/red underline]] in his ways towards the workmen whom he discharges and offends and cuts off wages.  I found it necessary
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