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[[stamped]] 0038 [[/stamped]]

[[left margin]] 8.57 [[/left margin]] Sept. 10. - Drove from Mt. Pleasant, Texas to Jackson, Tenn.

[[left margin]] 5.18 [[/left margin]] Sept. 11. Drove from Jackson to Camden.  Spent afternoon in gravel pit south of town.  Not now in operation.  Good fossiliferous white clay mostly washed away.  Collecting not good.

[[left margin]] 2.45 [[/left margin]] Sept. 12.  Spent morning at Steel Bridge over Big Sandy River about 11 - 12 miles north of Big Sandy.  Collecting good but exposure small.
   In afternoon went 1 - 1 1/4 miles upstream from Steel Bridge and collected Birdsong shale in bluff on east side of river.

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Sept. 13 - [[strikethrough]] Send Eugene Love, Rte 2 Holladay Tennessee, a copy of Dunbar on Devonian of Tennessee. [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Sent 10/5/40]] 
    Collected at Will Love Farm.  Collecting poor except for small things.  Place much visited.
    Farm is located on east side of Tenn 69 just 10 1/2 miles S of junction of Tenn. 69 and US 70.  Locality is just about four miles N of the center of Holladay.

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Sept. 14. Left Camden and went to Jeanette.  Found no exposures SE of this place.  Local people asked knew of none.  Silurian limestone (Decatur) is exposed 1 1/2 miles NE & about the same distance SW of the village.
    Took quarters in Parsons.  Drove from Perryville to Decaturville and back to Parsons.  Sent off a box & keg of fossils.
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