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The first thing to do was to put away the sea-urchins 

 that I collected at Goat Island. They had been too 

 long out of preservative and were quite high, though 

 not as bad as Bernards crab I The urchins were very 

 abundant on the mud layer in among the mangroves. Some 

 had even crawled up onto the mangrove roots. Tihen I 

 went i|i for my swim I found it difficult to avoid step- 

 ping onto them, in fact I did sit on a couple, but the 

 mud was so soft and the urchin 1 s spines so short and 

 blunt that no damage was done. I found Nor r is flat on 

 his back in considerable pain. He had apparently hurt 

 himself lifting and carrying logs. We all hope for a 

 quick recovery. Started for 2 Piccadilly Road for a 

 late lunch. It proved to be a very late lunch because 

 I lost myself and drove all over creation before finding 

 a landmark that I could recognize. Finally found myself 

 on the Spanish Town road and worked my way to Cross Roads 

 from there. After lunch drove to Hope and had a good 

 talk with Edwards and Dixon, mostly about termites. It 

 was suggested that I meet the new Director, Jones, late 

 of Trinidad. He was a welcome relief after my experience 

 of 1937 with Barnes. This time I was asked to sit down 

 and with Edwards, the three of us had a very pleasant and 



satisfactory discussion 

 of the entomological prob- 

 lems of the island. It is 

 evident that Edwards will 

 be encouraged to do some 

 real research if he is so 

 inclined and can probably 

 get the funds to publish 

 it in the station journal. 

 Probably my imagination 

 but there seems to be a 

 better atmosphere about 

 the office of the entomo- 

 logist than there was at 

 the time of my last visit. 

 Made arrangements with 

 Dixon to go out with him 

 to see the major termite 

 infestations in Kingston. 

 In 1938, Dixon was made 

 Senior Assistant and given 

 the termites as his parti- 

 cular problem. We will also 

 try to get out onto the Pal 

 isadoes before I leave and 

 W. B. Dixon. investigate a species that 



is living in the dead 

 Acacia branches there. I left the station about 4 PM and 

 drove home by way of 5 Cargill Ave. to call on the Tfoolers. 



