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by his superior from attempting to build up a good col- 

 lection. Saw nothing of special interest. What little 

 they have was got together by C. C. Gowdey before he 

 left. We spent the afternoon at 5bCargill Ave., getting 

 the sheet out and ready and filling the lantern. After 

 tea took supper in box and went back to Hope garden to 

 hang sheet. Pound a good looking place but the collecting 

 was poor except for leaf hoppers. Yfent across aqueduct 

 (here it was so low that we could step or jump over it) 

 into the low ground for more fireflies. We stumbled onto 

 a freshly felled tree in the dark and found a few teneb- 

 rionids and longicorns (Chlorida sp. ) on its trunk. Went 

 back to the sheet and found that the flight was about over 

 so we picked up and went home. Ruth and the Woolers had 

 gone to the movies and we were locked out. After waiting 

 three-quarters of an hour for them to come home, I noticed 

 that I could slip through one of the sidelights (which 

 were unlocked through oversight) and so we were in. Bed 

 about 11.30 PM. 



Feb. 6. Mrs Wooler packed a big lunch for us and we started 

 fairly early for Bath in St Thomas. Our road runs along 



Old fort near Harbour Head. 



the coast from Kingston, first through the gate of the 

 old fort, now used as a military prison, then by the Pan- 

 American Airways landing basin (all planes stopping at 

 Kingston are amphibians) and finally into open country. 

 Our first stop for collecting was a few miles this side 

 of White Horses, where we saw a large tree recently cut 

 down. It was a fine Tropic Birch about eighteen inches 

 in diameter. The natives called it a "Budge gum", prob- 

 ably a corruption of birch gum. Its technical name is 

 Bursera gummifera . Its bark was just beginning to loosen 



