P.S. I think it would "be just as well not to say anything to 
. Shoemaker yet about the annual report. I'll get everything as near 
ready as I can when I leave. When he is actually left with it on his hands, 
he* 11 do it. He’s so balky only as long as he thinks there is a possi- 
bility of some one else doing the job he’s trying to escape; but when he 
realizes that there is no escape he really sits down and does it. If I hadn’t 
been here, he would have worked out that key, but as long as there was an off 
chance of my doling it, he wasn’t goin£ to bother. 
Hr. Wetmore told him a few days ago to write out some collecting 
instructions for Father McNally, the man who is going to accompany the 
eclipse expedition. He did it without a whimper. Mrs. Clapp went direct to 
him with Dr. Stejneger’s request for a quarterly report, and he wrote it it 
out without ever bothering me “until it was ready for typing. 
If we just leave the annual report in his lap, I think he’ll take 
care of it. 
