Bacon Scholarship - Continued 
Station # 56 , Punta del Este - Continued 
Got a few amphipods if they don't spoil on me. Density 101^.00, Temp. 
70.5° or 6. 
Grapsoids under rock and in seaweed, mostly in water or where there 
was water, tide pools, etc. Lydgia common over rocks, some very large ones 
among them. Got only one or two poor specimens. 
Came back to church. Services going on, finished, most people filed out. 
F. wanted drink; we went across park for Urugayo Club was dancing. 
Back in park fellow was speaching and two bands alternated. Couldn't buy 
any pictures. But, unlike Rio Negro, most came in autos. Sandy dunes, houses 
with thick thatch. Can almost tell part of country by percentage of house tops. 
Light at Punta del Este.; Maldanado Light. Camera got 1 bump and 1 drop today, 
both in case fortunately. 
Said Caramba when I told him I was not going to be in Washington. 
Water samples at about 3*33* tide just after turn, turn well marked. 
Broke thermometer. 
Told Metcalf he had learned English in last three months, and that I was 
sure H.M. Smith had written he knew no English. Metcalf said, "Why, he 
doesn't know any now." Good of him to try, and when you write it and make him 
read it, he gets it. On train Fel. couldn't stay in seat, crowded as dickens. 
Seat hogs. Train was due to start back at six, hasn't started yet at 7 p.m. 
Beer 50^ Boy 20^ 
Auto 60 ^ Other 30f^ 
Auto 1.00 round trip, myself. 
