216 A COLLECTING TRIP 
accurate, on the shores of Tupper Lake. Now, despite 
that perhaps you will not think it very filial, I want 
to get to Cambridge for the last few days of the 
congress, for the purpose of showing off my collection 
a bit, if for nothing else. The congress will probably 
not meet in America again for years and I shall prob- 
ably not be able to go to the European meetings for 
years. I am sure you can understand what this means 
when I tell you frankly that it is as important for my 
eareer as affairs of a similar sort are for any business 
man. I should meet numerous people and learn a 
great deal from them. Now, if I arrived at Tupper 
Lake on August 14th, I could remain there until 
August 22nd, eight days; then I could take Ros. to 
her family and attend the meetings of the congress and 
start the home-hunting game. Then we could both 
return to Tupper Lake and pay you another visit. 
In the eight days you could see the New Guinea phot- 
ographs, which have simply overpleased every one 
who has seen them. They are fine. 
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I shall be able to turn out some good papers on 
the collection, you may be sure of that. I have heard 
that the bulk of the collection is safe in Cambridge. 
That means a great deal to both of us, for on many 
occasions you could have tracked us through the for- 
ests of the Moluccas by our streams of perspiration. 
In fact, it has even been rumored that the herons 
followed us, wading for fish, but we had none on us — 
although we had other things at times. 
We were never in better health, nor happier, nor 
more truly full of gratitude than right now. - 
As the old Massachusetts gravestone says; ‘‘We 
