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that he left Washington for two or three days in order to 
get away from being spoken to about it. This was one 
of the very few occasions when he went away with com- 
paratively little business occasion for going. It may be 
that he attended to a little Fish Commission business, 
but in company with Mr. Herbert Gill, then one of the 
clerks of the Fish Commission, he went off into the 
country in Maryland, away from everything connected 
with his work, taking the occasion to visit the scenes of 
his school-boy experiences at the age of ten. His admira- 
tion for Professor Henry’s genius and for the noble work 
he did was deep and enthusiastic.” 
