noon and sky became thinly overcast 16 and cloudy about 2 o'clock. Temp. min 28°; 8a. 34°; 12m. 35½°; 4p. 38°; 8p. 35° Flags are up to-day - U.S. on ours and Danish on Peter's. Ek has been alternat- ing U.S. + Danish flags on our house. Ek went out botanizing with Koch, hairy, assured him 105 species of plants from here. They got back last evening and returned at 3:30 today with 20-25 sp. and the knuts' nests. This morning I photographed the habitat of a snow bunting for Ek. Practised some more with my rifle and had better results than yesterday. Wearing my reading glasses, I made a 5; two 3s and one outside the circle in four successive shots. After dinner we had victrola music for an hour or more. Ek and I walked out on the flat from 6 to 8, or thereabouts, to see the entrenched stream east of