THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



the apparent lack of enthusiasm by saying that when the book 

 was prepared this country was still neutral. He thanked me 

 on the whole, however, for my criticisms. 



While we were talking, my old friend Dr. Maurice Francis 

 Egan, United States Minister to Denmark, came up to shake 

 hands, and in his inimitable Irish way glossed over by Euro- 

 pean diplomatic experience, began to pay me compliments in 

 French, for which I was very glad, both because Egan is a 

 man much in the public eye, and because it indicated my 

 acquaintance with the French language and, ergo, with French 

 conditions. Wigmore was glad to meet Egan, and we all had 

 a few minutes' conversation, tactfully avoiding the subject of 

 Egan's welcome at Copenhagen to Dr. Cook when he returned 

 to civilization after his supposed discovery of the North Pole. 



A moment after, Mr. William Kent, formerly Independent 

 Member of Congress from California, and now a member of 

 the Federal Tariff Commission, whom I had not seen for 

 months, stopped and shook hands, and wanted to chat, but 

 there was no time; so he asked me to play golf with him the 

 following afternoon at the Columbia Club, saying that he would 

 send his car down for me at noon to take me out to his house 

 for luncheon, then on to the Club, where we could have a satis- 

 factory talk. 



At that, I started for the doorway, but on the way met Dr. 

 A. B. MacCallum, head of the Canadian scientific commission to 

 the United States on research problems connected with the war. 

 A physiological chemist by occupation, he is rather generally 

 considered the most prominent scientific man in Canada to-day. 

 He caught me by the arm and told me that he had been looking 

 for me, as he wanted me to dine with the Canadian Commission 

 and some picked American scientific men that night at seven 



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