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Mynnel Leung
1969
journal
95
aug.25 (cont.)
35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Dept. Cajamarca, Peru
completed the process anyway. The centrifuge ran somewhat weakly. After 15 min. in the fix I attempted to spin the cells down. This time something awful happened. Our whole test tube holder on the centrifuge - the one with a TT, spun off and flew at me, hitting my freshly finished specimen first and bending the leg + tail wires, then getting me full of fix and cells. The other test tube was not to be found and was mysteriously gone until I looked at the bottom of the centrifuge tube and found the remains pulverized.
8:00pm Checked my 2 nets and found a bat in each. It is a rainy foggy night. Each had chewed a large hole in the net. In the new net were at least 2 other large holes, so I guess there were bats in them but they managed to free themselves. These bats (MAL 334 + 335) are the same as the one I found in the net this morning. They all have a characteristic odor. Bats seem to be fairly active tonight, even though it is rainy.
aug.26
Checked my traps. Down at the pasture I had 2 small Grypops in snap traps, one alive by the tail. These were caught among large boulders. The pasture is very moist, and parts of it are marshy. A couple of my traps - both large Sherman's snap, were set off by slugs and cows. I caught nothing in the 21 traps I set up around the