Field Notebook: Florida, Quebec, Vermont. 1927, 1928, 1931
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Monday Jan 12-1931 A light morning with evidence that it may rain tophemight. By noon the sky fully clouded and at 6.30 there was a shower. Tomorrow it maybe cool. At 3 P.M. there was a knock on my room door and a porter saying "I see for something very valuable here" and some moph two pack caps with Copper Ores and Platin valued at $500! He asked me $12 charges! This is nearly the sum I paid him in salary, but surely there was no need to pay such charges! Anyhow I now can go to work, and so I write him in a short letter. Jan 13-1931 worked some on the frachisford ores and continued to sort longer and longer on it each day until it was completed Tuesday March 23 -1931. It should make an interesting volume on the Orthacea, Clitton- taceae, Agtisthacea and Pentameracea. Copper ores are quite free, and does not produce a finished and well rounded ore ores. As for seeing things or me is better, there has tendency to overestimate