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you and yours. How delightful it will be to get amongst you 

 all . . . how delicious it will be to have a talk with scientilic 

 people again. Except Dr Hermann Burmeister, I have not seen one 

 since I arrived in South America. I suppose all sorts of wonder- 

 ful things have taken place in the time I have been here. I have, 

 of course, received no communication from the outer world, not 

 even from my friends, much less the scientific world, for aboixt a 

 year, and one is appalled to think how utterly out of date and 

 what an ignoramus one will be when one gets home." 



