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the time of probation, fifty dollars per month, and 

 a room in one of the college buildings free of rent. 

 Professor Guyot further said he would be glad to 

 see me again at an early date. 



On my second visit to him we agreed that I 

 should begin during the month of February at 

 home in Plainfield, making collections of local 

 birds there, and that some time early in March, I 

 should come to Princeton. Such an arrangement 

 was effected because there was no place finished 

 in the School of Science where anything could be 

 carried on, nor was it possible to move any of the 

 collections that already existed into that building. 



