142 A COLLECTING TRIP 
My best love to every one, aunts, grandma and 
grandpa, Cousin Lizzie Head, Gays and every one, and 
a great deal to Pa and the kids, as well as J. L. H., 
and yourself, from 
Ros. 
Buitenzorg, Java, March 22, 1907. 
My dear Family : 
Just a few lines to let you know that we are weil 
and ean never be better. ‘The collections are grad- 
ually getting into shape and packed. I have a lot of 
interesting things which you will enjoy seeing. We 
shall trip it about Java a little, which we did not 
have an opportunity of doing when we were here be- 
fore and then settle down in Buitenzorg again for 
more collecting. We want to see the great ruins in 
Central Java and climb one of the voleanoes, an easy 
one, for Rosamond wants to see an active voleano. The 
friends who were with us missed their boat to Hong 
Kong, so your letter before this was sent from Java. 
We have done nothing for the last few days but pack 
specimens, collect a little and rest and write up notes 
in the afternoons when it always rains here. It is 
now five o’clock in the afternoon and I have just re- 
turned from a trip up on a mountain near here for 
a couple of days — good collecting. Now I am going 
for a little walk in the gardens as the rain is over for 
the rest of the afternoon, I think. 
Love to all. 
Tom. 
(On the last sheet of the preceding letter was the 
following) : 
