Mr* Shoemaker had a letter from Mr* Price, up to Pennsylvania, 
the other day* Price hadn't written for quite a long time* He said some- 
thing about you, and continued, "I shall never forget how he thought of me, 
of all people, and sent me a Christmas card*’ 1 I tried to nib it in on Mr* 
Shoemaker that he should have sent Price a Christmas card, but I'm afraid it 
didn’t take * 
Bartlett said that 40 separates of his paper would be ehough. 
He said, "Dr. Schmitt is a marvellous person, isn’t he?" 
How do you fool them all like that? I i 
I sent the note on the date of Cuvier 1 3 Crustacea plates to Miss 
Gordon. In the footnote in which you referred to "Letter from Dr. 
Isabella Gordon" I suppose you meant me to look up the letter and quote just 
what she said. Well, I hunted all one afternoon and couldn’t find it* It 
must be one of the things you put away in a different place* When I sent 
the note and your letter, I wrote her a letter over my own signature explain- 
ing that you were away and telling her to make any changes she thought 
necessary if the paper is published. I told her I knew you would want her 
to do that. (I hope now that you would I) I also told her that I was un- 
certain about that footnote, but had not been able to find her letter to 
quote directly from it, and if she had a copy perhaps she could put in the 
W proper quotation. I hope you'll approve. 
I must write Miss Gordon again as soon as I can. She just wrote 
asking for an extension of time on that last loan we sent her. She says 
they heave to move out of their rooms and let the decorators in, then move 
back again, and they can't get much work done right now. 
Miss Cochran told me that they have decided to postpone the Stejne- 
ger dinner until his birthday in October, I believe. When she told me first 
that they were going to have it in May, I thought that was his birthday, but 
it seems that it is only the occasion of a meeting of herpetologists and ich- 
thyologists here and they thought it weald be nice to give him a dinner while 
they're all here. She says they will have a small dinner at that time, but 
will have an affair like the one we had for Miss Rathbun in October. 
Miss Dandridge was in here to see Miss Rathbun this morning® She 
will be in town for a few days. I'm sure I've met her before, but she didn't 
look as though she had ever seen me before. 
I told your story to Florence. She said to tell you that she hopes 
you are keeping a notebook in which you can record all the good ones you hear. 
She said, "Tell him to keep the ones he wants to tell you on one side of the 
page and the ones he wants to tell me on the other." 
I haven't finished the proof yet* In fact, I haverft worked on it 
since Monday. I don't know where the time goes. I was sick (really sick) 
one day and stayed home. There is so much routine work to do that I can't 
seem to sit down uninterruptedly with the proof. What I need to do is lock 
myself in 62* 
