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what you told me. Dr. Longley was in, however, yesterday, and he 
told me hoiv to do it, and I got all the Tortugas things cataloged up. 
sailing for Europe in about ten days. I 
Dr. Longley i 
think the Carnegie is financing it. He will visit various places — ^Paris, 
London, Berlin, and others. He expects to start the return trip in 
May and will stop at Havana for a week to consult the Poey notes about 
which you wrote him. That will bring him home about a week before the 
Tortugas season opens. 
I don't know anything especially new or startling to tell you 
You're the best scandal monger in this office, and when you're gone we 
don't hear any gossip at all except when Mr. Bryant pays us an infrequent 
visit. 
We are having some extremely warm weather. I wear my spring 
coat and am too warm in that. 
I'm going out tonight with Dr. Eartsch's assistant at G.W. 
I am very much amused when I consider that my fate always turns up in 
the shape of one of P.E.'s under-dogs. F/ty doesn't some one else in 
this Museum get a personable young man around once in a while? I 

mignt never meem mm, though, so suppose I should be grateful for 
the fact that the mollusc proteges look upon me with favor. 
Dr. Bartsch finally got off last Thursday or Friday. Johnson 
had sent a truck man down here three times to take the gear to New York. 
There was still a fourth load to go, but Johnson's man refused to come 
another time, so Jerry had to take it up in the Museiam truck. There 
was quite a blurb about it all in Svmday's New York Times. I'm saving 
it for you. We also get clippings here and there about your trip, and 
I'm keeping them all together. 
The Seba and Catesby photographs were not hard to label. For 
the Seba ones, I typed off the labels from the book and pasted them on 
the back of the various photographs. Miss Rathbun had a list of the 
Catesby ones, so I didn't have to get the book for them. The photographs 
taken from Marcgrave came over yesterday. Miss Rathbun also has a good 
list of them, and I do not think it will be necessary for me to go to 
L.C. for the book. 
I have started filing the Penaeidae cards. They are easy. I 
have also started some cataloging. Mail has fallen off considerably, 
so there aren't many letters to write. A letter came today from Hayes 
at Dalhousie, He apologizes for not having acknowledged your pictures. 
Said he intended to send you prints of his negatives, but that he loaned 
the negatives to Boyden for the purpose of making slides, and they were 
all lott in the mail when Boyden returned them. At the end of his letter, 
Hayes said, "No trouble to tell you why I didn't return to your office 
again. I was in Washington only a short time, and that coincided v/ith 
the period of visitation (l used that last word knowingly) of our friend, 
the man from the Golden West. I didn't want to cramp his style." 
Poor de LaubenfelsJ He's no man's friend! 
Sincerely , 
