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tors and all sorts of apparatus for my laboratory. We 

 found a suitable place and unloaded and set up the 

 cameras for lapse-time work that night. On our first 

 morning we were up almost at daylight and went 

 out to the school hedge to see what we could see. It 

 was almost white with the mammoth blossoms, hun- 

 dreds of them, and swarms of bees were all around 

 them. I made my pictures as quickly as possible, 

 knowing they would soon fade and then we went to 

 the school office to get permission to cut buds to 

 work on that night. Just as we arrived, one of the 

 young lady teachers had an attack of illness and as 

 our car was the only available one, we rushed her 

 through town to the hospital, our siren screaming 

 and a motor officer clearing and showing us the way. 



Returning, we were told we could have anything 

 we wanted and best of all we were introduced to 

 Professor Wilbur MacNeal and Mrs. MacNeal, de- 

 lightful people, conversant with Hawaiian flowers 

 and deeply interested in my work, and through their 

 efforts there was no possible chance of any of the 

 cameras being idle. 



That evening I made my first lapse-time picture 

 of two buds, starting the camera at about five o'clock, 

 making exposures every twenty seconds. By nine 

 they were in full bloom and by 10:30 o'clock I 

 thought they were beginning to close, so I slowed 



