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Title
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Transcribed Diary Notes, 1899, Part 1_029
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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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28 gray in color, with two sharp humps of the fore part of the dorsal side of its abdominal section. We have given it a cage and it has spun threads here and there, but has made no effort to weave an orb. June 19 Our little bat died tonight. She had gradually grown less active, until the last evening or two she would stay awake for only a few minutes. At five o'clock I found her hanging to her blanket by one foot, the other drawn close to her body. I took her in my hands, and she seemed perfectly natural. I hung her back on the blankets, but when I next looked at her, about seven o'clock, she was lying on the bottom of the basket dead, with the same little leg drawn up to her body. Last night she seemed loth to take any exercise, and it was only by an effort that we got her awake enough to flutter about the couch for a moment. I remember having been surprised that I could not see or feel any movement of the young; previously when I had held her in my hand I could always feel and sometimes see their movement. Doubtless the young were dead at that time. When we were convinced that she was dead we made a dissection, and were surprised to find four young ones apparently just ready to be born. We had surmised two as the probable number. We do not take blame to ourselves for her death; for she was never right from the moment when we found her. She was not squeezed in the least in her capture; and yet when we liberated her a few minutes later she was unable to fly, and could flutter only a few feet.
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Rights
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