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Transcription
No. Number
Surveyor's pins, tube,
aneroid tc - turned
taph from Navy or Naval
Observatory
32 - Books - incl. ref. scient.
results Baldwin-Ziesler
Expd by Capt Peters
(CLE free forch) notched
3 30 - Books - Personal, except U.S.
30 Agric. Dept. 1896 report th is CLE book
33 Books - Personal
21-X - Sirius clock 64 seconds slow
of Bond chronom at 3:25 P-
28 X- 4:23 Clock reads 4:20:31 = 144
Records slow - loss of 88 seconds
in 7 days -
Shortened pendulum 2 turns
of thumbscrew and at 4:28
by it, it was exactly 5 minutes
slow by chronometer