and I can't carry plat* a, 90 I am selecting thing3 to photo. If I can 
get a representative piece X do not photo ♦ "but £ uu photographing Oly*- 
ra, Payiana and such large leaved tilings. % am up against aa ea# 
forced holiday , Pflngaten. the Museum is closed from aooa today (Sat- 
urday) till Sofoe aday »moraiag. I asked Dr* Jliela || I could work, but 
"tUe tail lias will aot "be open/' As I was leaving the laat minute to- 
day 1 said to t*he Pfortnor (im 3©utseh, of course) ".4a d I can't come 
again till Hit two cb?" Ho mid X could come tomorrow fr.uaday) from 8 
till. 2 — 80110 oae of the bis guns is going to work , X suppose, ia spite 
of the holiday, so this popgun will too. — --I was aroused at aa evi- 
deaoe of tho faeliag toward the republic. Pra-alerln UartOb, the herb, 
assistant, said, when I spoke regretfully of my enforced holiday, 
that the la-belters had to have their holiday — under the republic the 
• ©reciters had their way — there we» scorn in her voice, ''Oh, they did 
aot keep Pfiagsten before the revolution?" almost wish lag for a t-aopo- 
rary "restoration of tho monarchy, "bh, pes, it had always been a hoi- 
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iday» I kept my fae« straight . ' I think they are an unreconstructed 
lot around hero. Shore is a picture of Hintehberg or someone that 
looks like Ma ia the room with the duplicates, and some officer's 
picture ia the library. I surmise they love the republic about as 
much as the south, loved the anion for a generation after they 
compelled to stay in it, I want to check up things and list new 
species I had not seen when 1 left. Washington , so X can work a good bit 
here in my room during the holiday. Dr. Perkins, who returned from 
Zurich a tm days ago' and has' been unpacking her Jamaica collections, 
asked me to dinner tomorrow at 2. ' : 'he is very interesting, 3he does 
not look well, is much thinner (she coald afford to be that— she is 
still much heavier than I'd ever want to be) and her skin has an an- : 
healthy yellow aast. She lives * not Tory far from tho Garden.-— In 
my enforced half-holiday I went 5 own to Cook's agents— closed till f 
Uhr. "ith time to waste I hunted up tho American consulate, getting 
