David LeRoy Topping notebook, 1904-1940
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Sat. Oct. 23 It was raining when I got up but nothing daunting we fixed for it and took the 8.47 train cut to Victoria Barracks. An English- man asked of the chaplain "who the little chap was" meaning Mrs. Coleman who was in her overall and muddy boots. We walked up through the golf course, collected some sun-dew and a new form of Blechnum in a swamp. Walked through a rubber plantation and then lunch after a hill-side where we found two localities for the pitcher plants, Nepenthes gracilis, the thing we seek out for; collected many other new and interesting things. By chance we came by Mr. Roberts' house but could not stop on account of the trains. Put in plants and changed drivers and talked over things botanical. Wrote a lot of postals. The chaplain got up a press of mine by mistake, I wrote up my diaries and and I got to bed at about 11.30