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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 6, 1934 
Dear Dr. Sciunitt; 
I really haven much to say, but I’ll waste the sheet of paper 
anyway! 
It appears that we will not get any more C«W*A. people, so I am 
madly tiering to finish things up before you get back, I don’t know whether 
I can do it or not. I wish I could slice myself up into three or four 
people. Yesterday afternoon Miss Clark came aom and we finished pasting 
up Miss Rathbion’s urapsoid bulletin, which brought us to a good stopping 
place with that work. 
The i’-iiarsh and Barring books are still sitting around. I don’t 
think I’ll attempt to finish cataloging them, but will do the ones that 
Miss Sappington had started and put the rest away somewhere. Half of Ghace’s 
shrimps are still^itting on my table. I could get them done in short order 
if I could only stay with them, but so many things come up that the only 
time I can get any appreciable amount of cataloging done is Saturday afternoons 
and occasionally when I come down on Sunday. 
Our winter seems to be over at last. The weather is much warmer 
and the last two days have been beautiful. The snow is all gone, and there 
is some fear that when the ice breaks in the Hotomac Chain Bridge may be 
carried away or injured. Yve went up the river Sunday to look at the ice; 
it was still a solid sheet then, but these last two days must have melted 
it a lot. All the little tributary streams are rushing torrents and they 
say the level of the river at Chain Bridge is 9 inches above normal, while 
it is only 4 inches above normal at Great Falls. Above Great Falls the 
ice is 9 inches thicK the paper saia. 
Mrs. dchmitb brought your diaiy down yesterday. I don’t iinow 
whether I’ll get it typed before you get back or not. I think it is more 
important to get this office cleaned up so that there will be room for you 
at your own desk. At present you couldn’ t get in with a shoe horn. 
Y/hen you get back, I think it would be a nice thing if you 
would write a little note to each of the G.hLA. people who came back and 
worked for nothing thanking Lhern. They would appreciate it from you, and 
they really deserve all our thanks. Miss Morris, Miss Luckett, and Miss 
Friedman each put in two days apiece for which they got no pay; and Miss 
Cl<‘U?k put in parts of two days. I thanked them all as profusedly as I 
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