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September 9, I 93 S 
Gomnander 0. 4. Bailey, Tf.S.l. 
0. S. S. Houston 
Mare Island, California 
Bear Commander Bailey: 
Wa all played into hard la.dc, didn’t we, with those sudden 
order 3 that you folks received and their sodden change? I certainly 
would like to have visited the ship with my family while you were at 
Norfolk, but I got word of it entirely too late to take advantage of 
the opportunity before you left. 
I have written Mr, Kelley several times about aailfish, and 
all we can do now is to hope for another chance another year. 
Everything got home in good order. 4s the collections are 
being worked up we find acre and sore of interest in them, The Clipper- 
ton visit was a rare thing for us. The birds have worked up beauti- 
fully into study specimens. You would hardly know them for the same 
things: they are really very excellent Museum accessions. The palm is 
not only a new spwi$Les, but also a new genus. ,T e even got a couple of 
new spedles of fish, but not among the larder game fish. The new ones 
are a couple of tiny things we got out of the tide pools at Old Provi- 
dence. from a fisherman’s point of view, that place would not be worth 
revisiting, but it certainly would be a wonderful place for a scientist. 
One could well spend a week there. 
The Museum couldn’t see eye to eye with me on a return to 
Clipperton. You know how much I want®! the Houston to stop there on 
her way bade to the west coast. The Secretary of the Institution thought 
it was asking entirely too much so close upon the heels of the Presidential 
Cruise. However, I shall not let the matter rest and, if 1 can do it no 
other way, I shall ask the President to stop there again the next time he 
goes with you. 
I a® sorry you missed your chance to spend a little time on 
the east coast. How did the majority feel about that sudden return 
to the Pacific after you had gotten up as far north as Norfolk? 
