260 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
out hanging my coat inside my slicker, without seeing that all of 
my money and most important notes were in my pockets, with 
God’s free air coming in through an open port—and slept 
soundly with no fear of submarines. It was certainly “‘a grand 
and glorious feelin’.’’ 
The quarantine officers came aboard early in the morning of 
August Ist and made short work of their duties. We were sur- 
rounded by quite a fleet of vessels that had arrived during the 
night and New York Harbor never looked so beautiful to us as 
it did on that wonderful bright summer morning. The majes- 
tie figure of the Goddess of Liberty seemed to smile a welcome 
home as we steamed by, and in the golden glow of the rising sun 
the great metropolis was beautiful as a dream of Paradise. The 
‘‘Parima’’ reached her dock about 9 A. mM. and Henderson had 
managed to evade the strict regulations and was there to wel- 
come us, so that our original party was once more complete. 
We had, of course, a vexatious time in getting our things 
through the customs. The overworked officials were plainly 
irritated at sight of our miscellaneous effects that appeared as 
baggage, and had little patience in listening to our explanations. 
They lacked the courteous bearing that we had encountered in 
foreign ports, paid little attention to our credentials, and in- 
sisted that every one of our eighty-odd packages, barrels, boxes, 
soldered tanks, ete., should be opened for examination. Un- 
fortunately I was unable to get in communication with the 
higher official with whom we had arranged matters on the out- 
bound voyage. To open all of the packages, particularly the 
large number of soldered receptacles for the collections in al- 
cohol and formalin, was out of the question, and we finally de- 
cided to send all of the University property through in bond to 
Des Moines and deal with the authorities there. This involved 
considerable expense and delay, but seemed the wisest course 
to pursue, although it was about a month before our collections 
were at last safely deposited in the Hall of Natural Science of 
the State University of Iowa. Telegrams were at once dis- 
patched to President Jessup and by him relayed to various anx- 
ious friends who had as a matter of fact worried more than we 
