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Fanny Holmes, made each visit an intellectual adventure, 

 and during the war years I came up from Havana to Wash- 

 ington on numberless occasions. They fixed me a room 

 on the top story of the house, bound two single beds to- 

 gether with metal bands, and thus provided rest for my 

 elongate figure. Once when the Tavern Club in Boston 

 was going to give a dinner to Stephen Vincent Benet, 

 which I greatly regret having missed, Owen Wister, then 

 its president, wired the Justice for a message. I happened 

 to be at hand when the telegram arrived and I seized it and 

 the draft of the reply. These I now have framed together. 

 Cousin Wendell wrote, "The first book I read about law 

 was Benet on Court Practice. The last word I read about 

 war was Benet's John Bronmfs Body. The name has been a 

 Benediction to me and I salute the bearer of it." 



Mr. Lowell's appointment of me, Henry Bigelow, and 

 several other colleagues to professorships in the Faculty of 

 Arts and Sciences closed the breach which had previously 

 existed between those servants of the University engaged 

 in taxonomic research and those interested in other branches 

 of biology. At times, largely because the biological labora- 

 tories were housed in the Museum building and all hands 

 were frightfully overcrowded, the feeling had been bitter 

 indeed. 



Election as Trustee of the Carnegie Institution in Wash- 

 ington, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Boston 

 Museum of Natural History, of which I have been presi- 

 dent for years, the Peabody Museum of Salem, the Bishop 

 Rhinelander Foundation, and above all to the Latin Amer- 

 ican Committee to choose Fellows under the John Simon 

 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — all these have brought 



