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Something else to bother Bryant about* Do I need a government orb 
bill of lading or can I send my gear back collect as in past years? I am " 
^ sending two tin cans in a case collect by this next mail boat* My copper ^ 
^ tank is just about full up and I need more room* Mr* Perry might be able 
^o tell you whether it is necessary to go to Bryant about this or not. 
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I would I could get over to Cuba but I guess it*& out of the 
question. I met S-Roig, several years ago, on his last previous trip to 
Washington. 
I canH begin to thank you, both for the bibliography for the 
Miner report and getting off the annual report. 
Poor Mrs. Van Winkle, I suppose she*s about had her fill of 
Washington. Isn*t it just too bad that she should get caught that way. I 
hope it’s not a taxonomic rash. She shoiiLd be careful for it is ordinarily 
a six weeks affair. Do ymrackK what you can to make her take things easy* 
She would get the shingles and not Burkenroadl 
Isn’t Bartsch the d;::; st? But Richards would go to Bermuda* 
If he hadn’t insisted on going, the difficulty would not have arisen; and 
you know how Wetmore hates little troubles, no matter who causes them. Of 
course Bartsch is responsible, but the newcomer, Richards, surely hurts 
his case a little with the Big Boss* As you know, Richards has quite a 
stubborn streak, which is fine I say if he can only hold it in check till 
he gets permanent; then I hope he will get stubborn as and then some. 
Can’t you see the fireworks? If that sinner would only concentrate on 
putting over his probation. 
The cheesecloth came and the S.S.S. separate. Thank you, but 
the devil only knows where that Curacao book got to. It might not be a 
bad idea to write Boeke for another copy of the volume if he can spareus 
one* Tell him the one he had sent Miss Rathbun got lost in the mail while 
lending it to a friend of the Institution. 
By the way if you hear from Gravier or Chopra (hardly the last) V 
about the information Dr. Longley wanted, please sand it along. J 
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I do not recall if you saw the Bartlett notes or not. Clarence 
! will hate to dig out the original label, I know, but the several bottles, 
sucker fish, barnacles, and maybe sea weed, should be gotten together and 
j the original label found; the date, if any, would fix it. Pil^ry has 
S been told, I believe, that we are checking up, so that should hold him 
I (better look at the carbon) till I get back. Call Clarence’s attention to 
/ the matter of original label and put these two letters with the things for 
I my attention. Don’t let Clarence say he can’t find it, for it must be 
somewhere among that last Bartlett sendingl 
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The devil tke Burkenroad. The papers clipped together are his to 
me and a draft you’ll have to try to digest first and type thereafter. 
He’ s just taken for granted that he can come and go as he pleases, it woxild 
appear. So I hope it will be agreeable to Bryant (representing the Museum) 
to send him some sort of a letter along the lines I have indicated. I’ve 
signed follow sheets top, middle, and bottom, in case you need them. I 
