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I'm if/ritlng this to you before talking the matter over with 
the others here in the office, because I want to be sure to catch this 
afternoon's air mail with this letter. When we talk it over, the others 
may have Some ideas, too. 
^You will probably think of Miss Furtos, but I think she is out 
of the running just -now. Vie wrote her a few days ago asking her| if she 
would name some ostracods. She replied that since biology had turned out 
to be such a barren field she had gone into medicine, and is now in medical 
school. She said Mil she would take our ostracods during her spring vacation, 
about three weeks hence. If she is in medical school, she won't want to 
stop for work of this kind. And if she has the means for medical school, 
she isn't really in need of this work, so I think she is out, although 
we might be glad enough to have her. 
I shall do the best I can with this on ray own hook if I don't 
hear from you. However, I am going to send this air mail, special delivery, 
and won't vou please send me a wire if you have anything to say about it? 
I'll hold up ray recommendation to Graf until Saturday morning. If I haven't 
heard from you then, I will have to send it in anyway. I hope this reaches 
you in time that you can maybe send me a night letter Thursday or Friday 
night. If you can't, I'd he glad if you would send a straight wire or 
day letter Saturday. I hate to ask you on account of the expense, but 
maybe you can charge it to the government, and I will feel so much better 
about it if I know what you went. If my Greaser idea is OK, please say so. 
I'm sure j'^ou will approve of the two catalogers, but I don't know what 
you'll think about Greaser, and whether you might have some one else in 
mind. 
You know the little red— headed David somebody who worked on 
bones here for a while and whose father first attempted to get me out of 
the apartment mess I was in? I'm always embarrassed that I simply cannot 
seem to sx remember their name. Anyway, the father was just in here a 
few minutes ago to see you. He thought you would be back. I talked to 
him for a long time, but his name never did come to me. I asked him to 
call again after you get back, and he said he would. 
I hope you get this letter in time to get word back to me 
some way, I don't think you'll have time- to write me a letter, even 
by air mail in time for me to get my report in to Graf by the end of the 
week, which is the dead line, so if you can dig up the price of a telegram 
please send it to me. (The telegram, I meani) 
