Could you make out what Miss McCulloch thought about the Calif, Acad, 
business? I gather from your letter that she was rather noncommittal. I 
should think she would be in favor of it. She’s somewhat unaccountable, 
isn’t she? 
Dr. Bartschi'is back at work. I haven’t seen him, but I have heard that 
he still isn't very Tmll. He had some gall bladder difficulty, or gallstones, 
but there was no operation. 
I just c^led up Mrs. Schmitt and asked her to come in and go to lunch 
with me next time she's down this way at noon. I meant to be inviting her 
to lunch, but before we got through she was insisting that I go with her and 
finally she said if I’d go with her she’d show me the Cosmos Club. I always 
have had. a yen to have a meal at the Cosmos Club, so I fell for her wiles and 
we made a date for day after tomorrow* 
Oh, about what Dr* Brown thought of Mrs* Brooks. After she^d been 
here a couple of days or so, he said to me, ''She doesn't know a damn thing." 
f!e both thought that she was coming down here to do her thesis work for Ph.D* 
but, much to our surprise, we learned that she got her degree last spring. 
She brought her specimens and thesis down here and wanted Dr* Brown's 
Before she published* When he saw what she had, I guess he was 
pretty sick* She came down here with 11 boxes of specimens and this huge 
manuscript* He said she had over a hundred species in her paper, but when 
he got through with it he left eighteen* v He said, '*! went through that 
manuscript like a dose of salts." He doesnH think much of her knowledge 
of botany and he says he doesn't see how she was ever allowed to get a Ph.D* 
I think I^d better stop tearing the poor lady to pieces. Her intentions 
are good, anyway* 
Sincerely, 
P.S* You will have seen Fisher ty now, of course. From his letters 
we thought that he thinks very well of MacFarland and we gathered that 
MacFarland is quite a likable person* 
