LATER YEARS 407 



lower jaw ! in a case. The portraits are most interesting, 

 a fine one of Rachel which recalled the days when I was 

 a Supe in college, at the Old Howard, as the only method 

 available of seeing her act. I quite remember her chaffing 

 me for my looks as a " sacre le natif romain ! " 'T is a 

 wonder that when they had the fire a few years ago they 

 were able to save all this stuff undamaged. 



I have been to dine with several of my friends of the 

 French Professors. I feel quite at home with some of them. 



I wish you and George were here — what a nice quar- 

 tette for theatre parties we would make. 



I envy you your warm weather, but I ought not to 

 complain. I shall need heat so much if I don't get a little 

 cold occasionally, that nothing but the infernal regions 

 will satisfy me next. 



TO EKNST EHLERS 



Paris, Feb. 2, 1903. 

 I heard incidentally the other day that you are com- 

 ing to Paris to see Darboux about some matters con- 

 nected with the International Association of Academies, 

 so I write this to let you know that I am here and to say 

 how much I hope the report is true, and that I may have 

 the pleasure of seeing you again after so long a while. 

 But if you are not coming now, perhaps you will be one 

 of the delegates of the Gottingen Academy at the London 

 meeting next year (1904). I think I shall appoint my- 

 self 1 as one of the delegates of the National Academy 

 of Sciences of Washington, so as to see my German 

 friends and colleagues. I also intended before leaving 

 Cambridge to ask you for the address of your son-in- 



1 As President of the National Academy of Sciences. 



