be relied upon to eliminate all printer's errors. I felt compelled to read 

 every line of all the volumes, not only once, but several times. Probably, 

 I am the only man of whom that is, or ever will be, true. Volume V was 

 entirely written by me and it took me almost exactly two years to write 

 it and put it through the press. I contributed also the greater part of 

 Volumes VI and VII. 



In September 1903 I had to run over to Frankfort and straighten out 

 a snarl into which the lithographers had fallen and which it did not 

 seem possible to clear away by correspondence. Accordingly, my Wife 

 and I started off on a second wedding journey, which we enjoyed to an 

 incredible degree and much more than we had the first. We sailed from 

 Boston to Liverpool and spent several days in London, to arrange for 

 the plates of the Botany volumes, which Dr. Macloskie wished to have 

 made in England, rather than in Germany. Professor Hubrecht and 

 his wife had invited us to visit them in Utrecht and we, therefore, 

 crossed the North Sea from Harwich to the Hook of Holland; I think 

 it was on the S. S. Dresden, which was wrecked the following winter 

 with great loss of life, on the Dutch coast. 



That crossing afforded us one of the rarest and most magnificent 

 spectacles that it was ever our good fortune to witness. The wind was 

 blowing a hurricane from the west and its steady roar overhead was 

 like a barrage of heavy guns; so tremendous was its violence that our 

 friends in Utrecht lay awake all night, trembling for our safety and 

 thinking that no ship could live through such a storm. The sea was 

 lashed to such wild fury as I have rarely seen, but the wonderful and 

 exceptional part of it all was the full moon shining out of a cloudless 

 sky and turning that frantic sea to molten silver. As the wind and sea 

 were following, the steamer drove through the waves with surpris- 

 ingly little roll or pitch. It never occurred to us that we might be in 

 danger and we had a comfortable night's sleep. 



Our hospitable friends took us to Amsterdam and The Hague and 

 saw us off by a night train for Cologne and Frankfort. The secretary 

 of legation at The Hague was then Mr. John W. Garrett (Princeton 

 '95) afterward the American Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Garrett was the 

 principal supporter of the expeditions to Patagonia and was particularly 

 interested in the birds of that region. I therefore called at the legation, 

 to show him the coloured plates of birds, of which I had just received 

 proofs from the lithographers. The dispute as to the boundary between 

 Canada and Alaska was then under arbitration in London and I was 

 a little apprehensive as to the outcome. Not that I cared about the 



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