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Then worked feverishly with Lewis o/b Ion until 6:15 P.M then drove home To day is a cool pleasant day, no rain.
What an appetite!
August 25. Rained all night. Up at 5:30 reading then tinkering with fittings for Ion and conference with [[red underline]] Gothelf [[/red underline]] giving him more precise details how to try [[red underline]] electrolytic reduction of formic acid or formate [[/red underline]] by means of sodium amalgam or nascent hydrogen generated in mercury cell. Advised him to try in acidulated bath etc. Then off, [[red underline]] to Ion [[/red underline]] and [[strikethrough]] a full d [[/strikethrough]] another full day of strenuous
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work correcting engine piping etc. Also discussed with [[Ivan?]] and his carpenter [[strikethrough]] how [[/strikethrough]] my [[red underline]] plan to make Ion an auxiliary ketch finally came to definite conclusion and told them to go ahead and built [[/red underline]] masts etc. 
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Worked till 7:30 P.M. Home for supper at 8:00P.M. What an appetite! since lunch is forgotten To day was a cool pleasant day no rain.
Expect [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] back to morrow. [[red underline]] Miss Evans [[/red underline]] away on her vacation and [[red underline]] Jim went to join her. [[/red underline]]
Aug 26. Took [[red underline]] Ion [[/red underline]] out in Hudson to time carburetor and buy Gasoline and water. Filled all the gas tanks, about 150 gals. Big dinghy leaks