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I am vei^* sorry to report that I did not thank Kemp. I must have 
overlooked- it, for I have tried to aciuiovfledge all publications tliat have 
come while you have been away. I wrote him yesterday, and apologised for the 
delay. I hope it will be all right. 
I am awfully sorry about Taylor. I have been wondering how he acted. 
The man ought to be throttled. Just for fun, I have gone back over all the 
correspondence between you and him. This is what I find. 
In your letter to him of November 2 (the first letter in wiiich you 
asked the various men if they could accept the invitation- if it should be 
offered) you say, "...an expedition that would take about tv/o months* time from 
Los Angeles to Los Angfeles. ..." " ~~~~~ 
In your letter of November 29, there is this whole paragraph, "I 
hope that the stipulations of your release are not so ironclad that il we did 
not return within a couple of weeks of the time set — or if Uiat is too much, 
one week of the time set — no trouble vroiild ensue. Two months is the expected 
dur ati on of t he field work, but one always likes to have a little leeway, ^ 
especially if collecting proves up well." 
Then, in your letter of November 25, you said, "The expedition 
plans to leave about December 50 from San Pedro (Terminal Island, California, and 
expects to be in the field about two months or a little more, depending on the 
number of stops necessary to best serve the scientific interests of the expedi- 
tion . " 
thing. 
Quote these to him if you have to. Don’t let him get away with any— 
Mrs. Taylor called on me here in the office one day last week. She 
was on her way from Virginia, where she has been since he left, to Philadelphia, 
and was here between tr^ns. She seems to be a very pleasant woman, and they 
have a perfectly beautiful little boy about four years old. He was so interested 
in eveiy^thing and began walking around looking at things wfhile his mother talked 
to me. She said to him, "Noy, sonny, don’t bump into anything, and put your 
hands in your pockets." He dug his hands down into his pockets and never took 
them out once, and was very careful not to brush against anything. I thought 
he was pretty nice. 
by the way, in none of his letters to you did Taylor mention anything 
about the duration of his leave of absence. 
Feb. 25. 
This letter is becoming a day-by-day diary. 
You had a letter from your friend Malcolm Green in England annoimcing 
the birth of his son on Christmas Eve. You remember he wrote you last summer 
about the impending visit of the stork. 
G. H. Wailes has written Mr. Shoemaker asking for the return of all 
the shrimps we have had from him. His wife has been very ill and must have a 
