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This also brings to mind that after I gave 
Del le Torre both my Florida declaration and that 
covering the shipment from Washington, he failed 
to hand the latter to the head of the State De- 
partment, the result being that he will have to 
go through all the red tape again on Monday 
morning. Poor fellow! He cannot get over carry- 
ing every letter that he has recently received 
from any member of the party or local official 
in his pocket, or, very often, in his hands. It is 
a wonder to me he did not lay some of them down 
somewhere s and lose them, but he seems to have 
a tight grip on them. At 3 P.M. Torre and I 
left for the University. This occupies the 
buildings and grounds of the old Fort, beautifully 
situated behind the city on an eminence commanding 
a view of the entire town and the panorama behind, - 
a most charming picture, which causes one to feel 
at once a love for the place, leaving a peaceful 
feeling, that restful quiet, characteristic of 
the countries inhabited by the people of Manana. 
The royal palms in the botanical gardens below 
the University terrace formed a dense copse, a 
most delightful picture. There is a tablet on 
the wall of one of the entrances, stating that 
Leonard Wood had dedicated this Fort to Learn- 
ing. These are not the words, but the senti- 
ment oftlhe situation! I wish humanity the world 
over might learn a lesson from this and bestow 
more funds upon the acquisition of knowledge and 
a little less upon armament. 
Dr. Dela Torre’s nephew, Dr. Heurta, a gradu- 
ate of Columbia University, was to give a lecture 
at 4 P.M. before the Confer encia on the geology 
of Cuba, so I accepted an invitation to it. The 
lecture ^as of a peculiar type, sufficiently 
interesting to merit a little note here. , He 
began by projecting a slide upon the screen, of 
Mt. Orizaba, stating that we ordinarily held to . 
the view n as everlasting as the mountains”, but 
that this was an error, that mountains were as 
changeable as the clouds - accompanied by a 
slide of a coast view with cloud effect - only 
that the change was slower. 
Then followed a slide of the Cuban map, in 
which he outlined the coastal deposit, etc., of 
calcium carbonate and the mounts! ns of travertine 
or serpentine (?) . This was followed by a dis- 
cussion' of the geology of the immediate region 
about Havana - the four raised beaches or terraces 
of organic deposits, and a description of the 
