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the Grenadine Islands. It was good practice in learning 

 geography, and a knowledge of geography is infinitely use- 

 ful to a museologist. I don't say that I always won at these 

 games, but I held my own pretty well, and Archie made me 

 feel proud by saying that he had never known any other 

 person who knew so many place names and their loca- 

 tion. It was simply the vagary of a peculiar type of mem- 

 ory. But this, with an ability to remember the names of 

 animals, thousands and thousands of them, has been use- 

 ful; and I have more luck in holding onto the names of 

 more different kinds of animals than anyone I have ever 

 met. I feel perfectly certain, however, that my friend El- 

 mer Merrill can name more plants at a glance than I can 

 animals. 



While I was an undergraduate I was too shy to make 

 any friends among my classmates. I came to know some of 

 them very well later on, I am proud to say, the most dis- 

 tinguished of them being Herbert Winlock, noted Egyptol- 

 ogist and former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Art in New York. I Hterally did not know that there were 

 any such things as clubs in Cambridge. I had heard some 

 names, but they meant nothing to me. I joined the Harvard 

 Natural History Society and attended its meetings quite 

 faithfully, becoming president in my senior year. Many 

 years later I was made an Honorary Member of the Signet 

 and was much touched at the compliment, as I was when 

 elected an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa. 



