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Cambridge, Mass.
1898.
Oct. 28.
(No. 4).
a stick some liquid matter oozed up as if the egg were still
full of something. 
  I took the turtle into the Museum and put it for a time
in the basin in my room with a little water. It soon showed
signs of activity and began to move about.
  John has made a pen in front of the Museum surrounded by
wire netting. A large saucer of a flower-pot is sunk into
the ground and is filled with mud and water to simulate as
nearly as possible the little creature's native element.
  The shell of the turtle was still quite soft.
  Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
  Walter Deane, [sic]
  Nov. 3.
  John and I have visited the turtle bed every day since
my last entry. Yesterday I was there in the afternoon but
still there was no change. This afternoon John went to the
spot and found that another turtle was out. It came
from the same hole that the others had come by. It was about
1.30 P.M. About 1 1/2 inches of umbilical cord was hanging
underneath. I took this turtle right down to Mr. Samuel Garman
and he was pleased to get it. He will raise it. He showed
me one of this same species that he had raised, it was two
years old and yet was only about three inches long.
  The turtle that was hatched on Oct. 28th we have kept in