rate instead of by the hour, wiiich will give them a little more money, and they 
will not be docked by for holidays* They all remarked, with sarcasm, that 
this arrangement should be made now after the holidays are over. Unless their 
time is extended beyond February 16, they will not get the benefit of any more 
holidays* 
I am very sorry that the S9-hr. week arrangeneit has come. It means 
that we are never free from these people, and the only way to get a little peace 
and quiet is to stay overtime. 
They finished the Concilium cards yesterday. Miss Sappington and 
Miss Boyle are in herej Miss Sappington working on the Marsh and Earring pam- 
phlets and Miss Boyle at present typing catalog cards for Miss Furtos* ostracods 
which Mr. Maloney had cataloged but not carded. Miss Sappington is arranging 
the pamphlets alphabetically so she can more easily check them against our 
card file before she starts carding then. There is no use in her carding any 
tha^t we already have carded. I have asked for only one typewriter, and have it 
on a table backed up against the case toga: back of your desk. The light is very 
bad. I coiold crowd it in with the others in Mr. Maloney* s comer, and the 
light would be much better, but Miss Boyle preferred to work in here with poor 
light rather than work out there with the rabble, and I don't blame her. When 
she finishes with the Flirtos cards, I will put her cataloging Crustacea and ?forms 
alternately and I will make the cards. Then Miss Sappington can use the 
other machine for carding the pampiilets. There just isn't room for another 
machine in here, so Miss Boyle and I i^ill have to manage to work together. 
T havai't had the courage to tell her yet that her rate of pay may be cut, but 
I must’ do it today. I don't like to do it before the other girl, and I haven't 
had a chance at her alone. 
Mr* Clark didn't appear on Siesday of this week, as I thought he would, 
so his man stayed on with us. He did back yesterday, but he told Mr. Shoe- 
maker that he had a lot of mail to look over and other things to do, and asked 
if the man couldn't go on with what he was doing another day. Mr. ShoBmaker 
(obliging gentleman!) said yes. The man has gone back to Clark today. I 
haven't seen Clark yet, and I'm not looking for him. Until he brings the matter 
up, I'm not going to do anything about turning Rippey over to him, and I'm not 
going to give him six days of Rippey 's time if I can help. We had his man six 
days, but Howard said he was no asset and that he talked all the time. He 
gabbling away every time I went around there. ^ 
Mr. Patton, the possibility for microscopist, is a graduate of North 
Carolina University, as I mentioned in my last letter. I had a very satisfactory 
letter about him from H. V. Wilson yesterday, so I have asked Mr. Graf to arrange 
for his transfer to this office. That is being done today. Dr. Wilson talked 
the matter over with Dr. Coker and reported that the latter thoiaght that no one 
but a copepod specialist should be entrusted with the remounting. He said a 
little balsam could be run under the cover glasses where needed, and all of them 
re— ringed. ?/ilson thinks that Patton is quite competent to do this much. 
Thank you for Mrs. Fraser's address. I had been wondering about it. 
