California some botanist tiiora could easily find you rooms 
gIio Unx^ver' ty. 
I haTa net Arcaer iuia he ia cerxaiiily a ¥ery fine fellow, I hope his 
ori^^ goes through as per scheaule. Sailing has been postponed due to caulking 
of the aliip and he ei^pects to get irord oraering him west cilmost any hour of the 
aay* He is the kina of fellow ^ho ia an asset to any exipedi'tion, and ia certainly 
a creoit to your institution. 
lon^t short youraelf on clean, uiiaerwear# One is apt to need more 
changes in the tropics mxa whan iiorking- — I iinow I do in cormeetion wi.fch shore 
collecting' — than otherwise^ and launo.ry o-pportunitiea will^ be few ana far be- 
tween, I ha¥e rinsed an occasional gam eat in iriy wash basin on the ship^ but 
ordinarily you woii^t care to bother with that or use the laundiy' equipment that 
they haT6 abaard. 
With kind regaroa 
f 
hLSiSL&t^ 
Sincerely 
J 9 
v.i.'s,lon' of Marine I,n vertebrates, 
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