A letter came from Dr. Marvin, of G.W., acknowledging your letter 
about Miss Rathbun. He said the matter would be brought up before the Board 
of Trustees. If their action is favorable, she will be notified. Otherwise, 
nothing will ever be heard of it. 
I am enclosing a letter from John Reed which came about three days 
after you left. I wrote him that I would forward it as soon as I had an 
address for you, but that he might see you himself before the letter could 
reach you. 
The Nardo sponges came last iveeK and have been packed for shipment 
to de Laubenfels. One specimen is to be returned to Minio; the rest we keep. 
There were 44 specimens from Madame Hardo-Cibele, and 8 from the Venice 
Museum. It is one of these latter that is to be returned. 
Mr. Shoemaker apparently has not yet discovered the return of his 
missing record book aiid I have not said anytidng about it. I think it will 
be fun to let him discover it hijnself. 
I haven't any typist yet. Mrs. Shoup says that typists are very 
There are a few around here, but th^ haven't sent any to this 
^ office. I don't care So much now whether I get one or not. A couple of weeks 
ago I felt quite rushed, with the Explorations account, the reading of de 
Laubenfels' Panama paper, and the addressing of these envelopes on my hands. 
But those things are all done, now, and I feel that I can breathe easier. 
I will start next on the letters about Miss Rathbun 's birthday. 
Dr. de Laubenfelb' two papers have just about driven us nuts. I 
read the Panama one and took out some of the offending lengthy remarks. 
He ought to supply a bibliography, I think. He thinks he put all the reference :> 
in the text, but there were eight or ten missing. I made a list of everything 
that was wrong with the paper, and sent the works up to Dr. vyetmore. If he 
is going to publish it, tliat will be time enough to worry with it. 
Mr. Shoeaaker is sweating blood over the Tortugas paper. It cer- 
tainly is an awful mess so far as the English language "as she is spoke" is 
concerned. 
Greaser was in one day about ten days ago. It was a day that I 
went out for lunch. He told Mr. Shoemaker that he was sorry to miss me be- 
cause he wanted to see me, but he wouldn't wait or come back later. I wasn't 
out over an hour all together. Mr. Dhoemaker, of course, learned nothing 
from him, asked him no questions, and paid no attention to what he said, so 
I don't xnow what has become of him — y&ether he is still with the Bureau, gone 
back to Michigan, or what. 
A letter from Ralph Bailey not long ago seens to inoicate that 
he is parked in the Carnegie Museum working on some f^^^es for Myers, and hoping 
for a real job. The story Bartsch told Mr. Shoemaker^getting him a job was 
all so much hot air. 
Miss Cocdiran is going to Brazil next month — sailing the 5th. She 
has been invited dovai there by the museiom in Rio to do something about 
frogs, and the Smithsonian is sending her. I gather that she is to be gone 
