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164 caulked, painted & varnishes dinghy in garage. Sept 19 (Sunday) Another beautiful day. Spent morning painting and varnishing dinghy. [[red underline]] Dr. Jones [[\red underline]] came to claim his sail. Sept 20. Here all day and on Ion at Spuyten Duivel. Lewis varnishing & staining together with Jim and his man, while I mended cracked dinghy ashore. [[vertical annotation in red in left margin]] ION [[\left margin]] Sept 21. More painting & varnishing. Late afternoon met Prof. [[red underline]] Crouch [[\red underline]] at Webb's Shipbuilding Academy and talked boats till late. Sept 22. At 1P.M. at Faculty Club with [[red underline]] Cottrell [[\red underline]] who came to see me to talk about [[red underline]] Esperanto. [[\red underline]] Same dear old crank. Says intends to [[red underline]] resign from Bureau of Mines to become [[\red underline]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 165 head [[red underline]] National Research Council. [[\red underline]] Then meeting Cr. Duggan at office Institute International Education. Then to [[red underline]] Chemical Exposition. Bakelite exhibit with automatic press electrically [[\red underline]] heated draws great crowds. [[strikethrough]] Accepted [[/strikethrough]] Informal dinner of Baskerville at Engineers Club with [[red underline]] Whitaker, Albert Hooker, Cottrell and Price-Green [[\red underline]] of Canada. Sept 23. Here most of day Evening dinner of [[red underline]] Am. Institute Chemical Engineers [[\red underline]] at Zeta Psi Club. Met [[red underline]] Henry Howard and talked yachting [[\red underline]] and boats till 11P.M. Sept 24. [[red underline]] George Roll and Nina [[\red underline]] arrived. Took G.R. to Chemical Exposition left him there till evening then returned home together [[red underline]] Baskerville [[\red underline]] and