Howard and Rippey finished the Concilia several days ago and have 
been woricing in the stack on the sponges since, 
Miss Sappington is finding many publications among the Marsh and Ear- 
ring tklngs in Russian ?dth absolutely no translations or abstracts in canother 
language* I donH Know what good they will be to any one. 
Miss Boyle is not too good on the cataloging, although she is doing 
better now. Her chief trouble is carelessness. She miscopies labels, and makes 
mistai'Ces copying into the book. I think she is inclined to be a little lasy, too 
Ki/nen I asK her to do a label over, I have to watch her that she doesn^t drv out 
the old label and try to furite something more on it rather than write a new one. 
It is a good thing that I am making all the cards, for I can check up on her 
that way. I^d like to put one of the more trustworthy girls on the cataloging 
to save myself the necessity of so much checKing, but I think that whatever 
Miss Boyle did would need careful checking, so it is better to keep her here 
under my nose where I can watch what she is doing. 
Miss Clark and Miss Kerr seem to be doing very well with the pasting. 
Of course, I can’t tell too much about it by looking at the cards, because I 
kno7/ so little about it myself, but their work is neat and they ask intelligent 
questions. 
Miss Sappington is the prize of the lot, and P^iss Clark, too, probably. 
Miss Clark is the oldest of the lot and has more sense. Miss Sappington is the 
youngest, though you wouldn’t guess it, and she can run rings around the rest 
of than. 
Friday morning Dr. Wetmore and Mr. Qraf called a meeting in 42 of 
all supervisors. I was the only female in the crowd of some forty or fifty 
people. We discussed the matter of retaining people after the 15th of February 
in case we are allowed to do so. Mr. Graf gave us each a list of our people 
on wnich we were to indicate the maximum number of people we would like to keep 
and ithe minimum number we must have in case our personnel is cut. I have written 
him a memorandum asking if Miss Spangler could be transferred to some other 
division and stressed the fast that our work for her is nearly run out and that 
I absolutely won’t know what to do with her if I am obliged to keep her. I havai’t 
had a reply ye^t. I told him I wouldn^t fill out the blank he gave me Friday 
until I heard from him on this matter, so he will be obliged to say something 
about it. 
Miss Spangler made a little trouble over pay, and it was my unpleasant 
duty to tell her that she couldn’t possibly get any more than she is getting. 
The typists were raised a couple of weeks ago to the Sate of 70 cents an hour. 
She suspected it, but none of them would give her any information. She finally 
found out by trailing Croggon to Woodward & Lothrop’s where she got her 
pay check cashed and Miss Spangler saw how much she received. Then the next 
Monday she asked me to v/hom she should go about salary. She was quite peeved 
bliat every one vms getting more than she. She felt that she had been done an 
injustice on the pasting — Lhat if you had just pointed out her mistakes to her 
she would have corrected them. I tried to tell her that the point was\ that 
there should have been no mistakes in the first place. She even nosed around 
