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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_006
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Alternative Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1
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Date
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1899
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Creator
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Elizabeth Van Sant
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Description
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Elizabeth Van Sant transcribed letters
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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5 Too cold to linger with them long, but as the bird was new to both of us we felt well paid for the trouble. There were probably 300 in the flock. March 22 This evening Frank saw the first robin, days later than last year. March 23 Saw the robin again. March 26 crow bluejay prairie horned lark Lapland longspur Another trip toward the Griffen farm gave us the same list of birds as last Sunday, though of the longspurs we saw only one, a female. March 29 Frank saw a flock of ducks flying south at a rapid rate; they had probably concluded that they had made a mistake in the season. He also saw a flock of slate-colored juncos. April 2 Mica gave us a treat today. We noticed that she was acting in a very unusual manner; she lay sprawled out in her cage, and was trying to attach her spinnerets to something. We took her from the cage, thinking she was going to die; she became limp and almost lifeless. She did not act like any of our spidres that have died; while she was extremely weak she was nervous if we touched her. We laid her on her side on a newspaper and for perhaps five minutes our attention was attracted to other things; and when we looked again we saw that she was beginning to shed her skin.
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Rights
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