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Wednesday August 31-1932
Wea. Fri. July 30, 1909 Ther.
Packed two boxes of fossils to have Mr.
Carlisle towman of The Tavern to ship by
Express roller. He's to send me the receipt.
The packing up my baggage and had Mr.
Carlisle to telephone to Mr. Smith who runs
the Manor House at Highgate to come and get
one what he did. At 10.45 A.M. I was off
for Highgate with Mr. Smith who went from
Brompton and then across through Highgate
Centre to Highgate and the Manor. Smith
is a Brooklyn real estate man who was for
12 years has been owning this summer house.
In the afternoon went down in the gorge and
probed up my Chiltern sequence. Found some
slipperunas and changed one statement es-
pecially the basal member dkt. that I had at 130'
and restated at about 80'.
Found again my lower fossil layer, drag
off the black slate grog are once broken up and I
must try to collect some fossils.
After the eclipse of the Sun was on at 2:30
it clouded over and over and at its height it rained