After talking to Mr. Perry, I have straightened out the packages 
I think. The S.A» diary and the Swett papers were mailed on ^^ov. 50 
under registered receipts 172651 and 172552 respectively. The envelopes 
were mailed on Dec. S under receipt 172965. The receips mentioned in the 
third paragraph of this letter, dated Dec. 5 and Dec. 5, were for letters. 
The Swett papers went as first class mail, which probably explains why 
you have received them. The other two packages went as second class and 
would go slower, Mr. Perry says. He went to tiie post office to start a 
tracer, but the P.O. says they do not start tracing foreign mail until 
after 90 days. Ho doubt the things will get there eventually. We vdll 
just have to have them returned. Perhaps they will be forwarded to Callao 
if they reach Guayaquil after you leave. I think the charts will get 
there, too, as they also went second class, I think. 
I have had several responses to Miss Rathbnn's birthday letter 
request. 
I 7 irant to go to Detroit for a week end. I tiiink I'll do it 
before you get back. — leave here Friday at 5 p.ffi. and be oack for work 
Tuesday morning. The B, St. 0. has a v/eek end rate for that space of 
time. I have some friends there. 
fe'w days ago 
I am enclosing a copy of a letter received ygstsjr a a y from 
von Hoffman at the Explorers Club. I told him I thought you would be 
willing to make the trip to hew York, but that you would write him. 
E. W. Bennett (the man in Australia who has the Hymenosomids) 
wrote on Nov. 12. He is going <(*has gone now) to the Caterbury Museum 
in New Zealand and took the specimens with him. He said he had been 
doing botany for a long time, but henceforth woula have only zoology 
to work {d)th, and hopes to get the crabs done and returned shortly. 
I wrote h-im that he coiild keep them a while longer, He offered to send 
Australian and New Zealand crabs for our collections. 
The copy of the Explorations account arrived O.K. and I shall 
enter the corredtions on the original, which Mr. True has returned lor 
the pui^ose. I'm glad that you had a chance to read it before it 
went to press. 
I am going to send this air mail. I hope the diary and envelop 
wi3JL tiim up soon. 
Sincerely, 
