transfer. Lucky break for her, but isn't that the irony of the whole business? 
She no doubt is desperately needy, but she also is desperately inefficient and 
she is the first one in the biinch to get a new job. Well, I can only be thank- 
ful that some one else will have the problem of giving her work to do after this. 
We probably won’t have her foisted back on us, and that is much to be thankful 
for. 
I oughtn't to talk so about herj after Dr. Wetinore talked to her that 
time she was more than pleasant and has been especially nice to me ever since. 
I think she thought that I was keeping her from getting a raise, and he put her 
straight on that. She probably has been especially nice since then to make up 
for her mistaken idea kbout me. She has been telling the others how nice the 
thinks I am. I am glad she feels no resentment, for I certainly don't know how 
to handle disgruntled people. 
About your suggestion that I write up the results of the C.W.A. work, 
I beat you to it that time! Although none of the credit is due me; we were 
required to make a report on all projects on January 15 and again on February 
15. So I have a nice little sheaf of papers with a report on all phases of 
the work all made out. The reports are very brief (they were sent to Hopkins 
and we were asked to make then brief) but we can elaborate them if we want to. 
The essential information is all there. 
I do hope we can get some of our people back again. ?Je have several 
jobs that were dropped in the middle, and there they sit — spread out over 
half a dozen tables and half done. I don't know whether I'll be smart enough 
to finish them (or bring them all to a good stopping place) before you get back 
or not. I'll try. And maybe we will get some of our people back. If we get 
any of them, I don't know whether wre iTill have the privilege of requesting the 
ones we want or not. I do hope so, and I hope th^ won't send us some one 
entirely new. If the rehiring is to be based only on need, I think all four 
of our typists need it really worse than any of our catalogers, but if I must 
cut the force (and Mr. Graf says we will not get back as many as we had, if we 
get any back at all) I want some of each typists and catalogers. Well, there's 
no use worrying about what we'll get or how we'll get it until we see whether 
we get anything. 
Miss Boyle had cataloged all the odds and ends, all the identified 
Hancock Crustacea; all the ideiiutiified Johnson-Smithsonisua Crustacea, some- 
few worms, some alcyonarians and jellyfish, and had just begun on the things 
that Mr. Chace identified. She hpent all ^y yesterday arraifeng Chace's things 
in order and was just ready to begin making the entries when the dismissal 
notice came. The things are spread out all over my table, and I may start 
cataloging them in a few days if I do not hear by then that we will get some 
of our people back. 
Miss Spangler had mended all the Marsh and Barring books and all the 
odds and ends of old pamphlets that we have been receiving from the library 
the last few months. I would have sent her up to Mr. Kri^er in a fenr days, 
so her job is finished. 
Mr. Patton had finished re- ringing the slioes, and had started making 
new labels, 'we can do ivithout him if necessary, and I would rather have one 
of the catalogers do the work than have him back. I don't know what kind of 
work he did. The slides that I looked at didn't seem to be too neat, but I 
