llrjmrttttettf of (Emtunrm anJi Habor 
\ 
Hotel Frye * 
Seattle, Wash.,, 
June 15, 1914. 
Dear Dr. Sumner: 
It was hardly fair for me to pass along the question with 
regard to the current -meter , hut I really could not give them a very satis 
fac tory ana wer. 
I suppose the firm of Gurley requested a testimonial, in view of the 
fact that they supplied you with a cut. 
Though I didn't expect to see Dr. Kofoid at the time I wrote you , I. 
met him in Seattle at the time of the meeting of the Biological Society 
of the Pacific . 
Can't you get enough influence together , to over-rule the dissenting- 
member of the editorial-committee? After all the extra work we did to 
please him with regard to drawing up the tabular form of dredge -table , I 
think it is a "dirty trick" . A hundred reprints , more or less, after the 
proof is cut , make hut very little difference in the cost. Should you be 
allotted only two hundred copies , all told , I 'll be content with ten , and 
I know Johnston willbe . The people I shall want to reach, outside of the 
regular mailing-list and the one I sent you, are very few indeed. 
Yes , I saw Dr. Overman the day before we left San Francisco, and I 
was forward enough to tell him that at some future date he might' need a 
curator ( assistant understood) in Zoology, I would like to be considered. 
It's a lame confession to make , I know, but this coast has taken a "holt" 
on me, and it is with a certain regret that I leave . But then, of course, 
we never know what the future has in store for us. 
No. 205 
Ed. 7-2-12—400,000 
