Jvine 29, 19S2 
Leer Lr. Schraiit: 
Your several letters oisae today. I have already dro^ved the 
Spanish dictionary in Mr. Periy's mail bag. 
The 'hobert Tracy Jackson article says to soak the echinoderms 
I'or half an hour or mere in frssh water, then soivk for 12 hours or more in 
a 1:1,000 or 2:1,000 solution of eoxixjsive sublimate in water, and dry 
out oi aoors oi’ with artificial heat. 
The Frank Smith article ia "Certain differences between text- 
book Eaathworms and real earthworms," Trans. Ill, State Acad. Sci., Vol, 
:VII, 1325, pp, 
7S~8b* 
I told you in Liy la&>t letter that the Senate iiad sent thh economy 
bill bacic to conference. All the Bemocrats, of courae, (or most of them) 
had gone to the Convention, and Uarner did not appoint new conferees. The 
Senate then voted bo reconsider its former vote and called the bill back 
from the conference cOimaittee. Yestercay they passea the bxll, and now all 
it needs is the president’s signature, wldch it will no doubt get. It 
provides for a month’s furlough, longer furloughs if necessary to Keep ?/ithin 
appropriations, immediate retirement of superannuated employees, no promotions 
no filling of vacancies except by written order of the President, permanent 
16 day annual leave to take effect in July, 1965, dismissal of married women 
first, and all money saved on salaries to be returned to the Treasury. There 
are a lot of inequalities and incon si stand es in the bill, and no one knows 
how it is going to operate. The bill was passed in the Senate 55 to 11* I 
don’t understand how legislation can take place when less than half the 
members vote. Politics is a woncierful 
Airs. Van caine back to Monuay of ^iu.s week after being 
out two weeks with her shingles. She is almost healed up now, but she is 
taking life easy and stays only a little more than half a day. 
kiss Aiicierson has practicdly finished up all available cataloging. 
As a last resort, Mr. Maloney got out Myers rotifer slides to keep her busy 
for uiie rest of the time she is hcre^ I like her very much and I dsh she 
could stay permanently * In spite of her rather poor health, she is by Mar 
the most attractive tempoi^ary v;o have had since I’ve been here, — ixi intelli- 
gence, ability, industry, interest in her work, and personal ’’likeableness” 
she has all the others beat a mile* She is planning to leave Saturday for 
her home in Minneapolis. She says tiu;t her stomach is getting just as bad 
again as it was before she took the week off to go to uhe hospititl, and she 
doesn’t feel like staying around and hunting a new job. Apparently she has 
a good home to vdiich she can go and 'where oho v.ili be well tauon care of, and 
it seems the vd. 0 est thing for her to do. 
