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December 17, 1917
I discovered a lantern slide expert, Kanzee on Gerry Street at Market. He has several
thousand slides in stock from all parts of the world and I purchased slides of India,
Darjeeling, Burma and China from him.
December 18, 1917
At 9am, I took the train for Stamford University. The morning was foggy, so I did not
see much of the landscape. I had not been at Stamford for 9 years. At the Palo Alto
Station, I found a trolley car line to the campus, which was built since my time. I
found all the zoology faculty of the old days still in office. Dr. Gilbert, Price, Snyder
and Heath and Starks. Fisher was in the East. The families of many of the staff have
grown up and departed. Dr. Gilbert's son and his two daughters are married, and Mrs.
Gilbert is dead, so Dr. Gilbert now has no home but lives with an old friend. Heath
has a son who has just entered the University. Starks has a daughter 17. I lunching
with Seal and his wife, who have just come here from Harvard C.M.S. Starks took
me home for dinner and later Abrams came and took me in his car to his home on
the campus where I spent the night.