The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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21 In the afternoon I visited Hilda at her lab in the Hooper Research Labs, at the Affiliated Colleges. She was clothed in an apron + had a series of test tubes filled with bacteria cultures some of which she showed me on slides. She had cages of guinea pigs in which she was growing tetanus, diphtheroid & other bacteria. She introduced me to Dr. Meyer the acting head who spoke of his experience in South & B.C. Africa with tetrafl. Another Dr. Williams I met also he has been in South America. At night Hilda dined with me in the reservroom of the Palace and danced until 11 P.M. Then I took her home to 2 Hugo Street in a [illegible]