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as dr. the people l f ve heard since I f ve landed in S«r#p# f it 
Bounded so so od and natural:, even though 1 did not know what they 
were m$tMg* 1 had. mot realised how gut t oral is our speech.- — — 
Hearard said that our A 2 oil a e&roliniana was everywhere %m their 
ditch 08 — 1 had a eked him what that red aoum oh the water was. He 
said that it had geared then at first, hut it lias done ao ha-rau- — 
leiden is the Most charming place, with a "branching canal rwamlag 
*rou;fn the streets, with, beautiful old trees beside it f reflected 
is "the water* The children in their wooded shoes are so cmrniBg. 
1 said to Vdnfi Cool that I wished that I had space i*n ay trunk so 
that I could take home a pair of wooden shoes. 4t 1.17 place, at 
the last meal at her house, wae a pair of wooden shoes about 3 
inches ioag. I appreciated the compltaoBt to m$ feet — especially 
seeing that I aa from Chicago.- Mies Gool is mycologist of the 
:• ijke Herbarium, she ha 3 devised a formula, after years of ex per 
i-iOBttag, "for a solnitior/ 11 which to preserve' toadstoolo arid flow 
er&ag plants la tM±r natural colors, < r >he showed Mb Jars a~id jars 
of toadstools and of hlack walnuts and such things that discolor 
the preservative , that were "oasaaed" several years ago. She plant 
were their natural color and the solution was clear* Br He^rard 
said that Dr Ooker of Uerth Carolina had offered her a position 
at 'the college at Chapel Hill, but she would iaot leave her own 
country* 1 feald her 1 did not blame her, but she -would fuiA 
North Carolina very beautiful, too. i didii ? t tell her how far it 
ii from beiBS as clean aa her country • The sidewalks are washed 
e/ory morning as iaa 3e:teva m& in Munich* Br Coker seei^s to have 
9pe»t some time at Leiden stu§yl&g the 'tersoos herbarium. Thay 
both like him very muclu On our long walk Sunday eveaaing Hea- 
rard #ot to talking about the war. ffeal; he said was almost the ' 
sane as what Sr Briquet had said. 1'heir aysipathy was saturally 
"Hfh Gormjiv.. I'hey used %raai hooks la their schools, he said. 
