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of n±m\ that could he worked up to believe the bunk about the ' T wa» 
for democracy. " Cue of the incoiapreh casibl e things to ho is the 
attitude so coraraon among us, especially, so -it seems to »e # among 
the "educated class ea? of indifference, even a lofty indifference 
fas if such scatters were beneath then) to the doings of our ex- 
ecutives, our diplomats and law rashers, and of our we*y and navy. 
If the fate of Gernary and Austria today does not tsake it plain 
how necessary it is to keep a close watch and a tight rein on our 
government, we are blind Indeed. 1 went hone With Henra-ru. 
after supper Saturday night and stayed over Siuiday sight, ^ t* 
worked from 8:30 till 1£| then to avoid fas« about it I. ate. at 
noon f great waste of tine!. N followed "lss Cool, .she went 
faster on her bicycle, and had 14a ch with her, then returned to 
work till about 6:30, when we all had supper*', Then Eenrard and 
I returned to the herbarium and. worked by daylight; till 9 or after. 
% wish we- had daylight .like that— though.. X\ wouldn't want to pay 
for it in short winter days, As we waited for sy. train, to Brussels 
honday morning Howard said he had never had no goof a. time with 
«ra93ea before in his life. Except 'laokel he has never met anyone 
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who works on grasses , and when he visited Haekel the poor man was 
in such a distressed frame of nind that he did not want to talk 
about grasses for any length of tine . • ?hey spent .acre time at the 
xdaao , I was so amused at his account of his trying to get some . 
sort of satisfaction out of Mez. You Icsow how abundant are the 
errors we find in Mez ' s work, renaming i*aa» r.;iplexi.a**Xe Frisco,. , 
not Someone el Be, when Grisehaeh's mams -'"was aaplexi ^liog - and va- 
lid, for exanple , I've records of, dozens of cases cf carelessness, 
■ hen he cited. two or more species, or even two genera J under a sin- 
gle snecies, or aid soae other dreadful thing Hearard would write 
his. !f I write to him, Or S§*« , how can .you say so and so. Shea I 
