I haven't touched the last two hunches of diary-* -one in a 
manila envelope and the small hunch in a letter envelope. I shall get 
started on them tomorrow. 
I finished carding the Zoological Record this afternoon. It 
was a terrific j oh this year. There are 533 titles and correspondingly 
many species. 
I think that I have done about everything I planned to do 
while you were gone, except read French for Mr. Shoemaker. I haven't 
read a* word. I wanted to do it for myself, more than for him, hut 
there'hasn't been tine. I should make new files for next year, and 
see what I car/do on the annual report this far in advance. Mrs. Clapp 
askedine if I was going to do it before I leave. I said, "Sh-h— h. " She 
said the only thing that is worrying her is that she will have to type 
it. She. said, "You know whenever any extra typing is needed in the 
Department of Biology, I an the whipping hoy." I said, " It 11 leave in 
my will that you are not to he bothered with it." 
Gee, if it's as hot as you say down there now, what will it 
he when I get to Haiti in about a month? Dr. Hildebrand says that 
Panama will not he uncomfortable, hut I bet therd is plenty of heat 
between here and there. 
It's just too had about the things you don’t dare ask about. 
I feel very sorry for youi The Italian town is doing nicely. If it 
doesn't rain this week end we are going somewhere Saturday and stay ovecr 
until Sunday — somewhere in the general direction of Winchester, as the 
apple blossom festival is on now and I have always wanted to see it. 
She is turning in the Ford on a brand new Plymouth which we had hoped 
would be here this week, but it won’t be, so we'll have to hope that 
the old bus holds together. She says you will never hear the last of 
it if she doesn’t get that letter. She says that the fact that you 
didn't get to Tobago is no excuse 1 
Bartlett sent three separates and Mr. Bryant and I each wangled 
one more out of Miss Munroe. That makes 5 ^ or you* 
I think we had better lie low about the Fish bottles. Dr. 
Wetmore sent the invoice down disapproved, and said that we should turn 
them in to the General Supply Committee. We'd better keep still for a 
while, I think. Fish thought he would be down last week for the 
oceanographic meetings and he said he would see Dr. Stejenger. He was 
sure that when Dr. S. understood, it would be all right. I wrote him 
quick and tried to get him off that tack. I urged him to see me first. 
I guess he didn't come down; I didn't see anything of him. If he cooked 
his goose by going to Stejneger after I warned him off, it's his own loss 
I’ll make an extra copy of the diary from now on. 
Too bad that Mr. Lunz has been so sick. I want to be sure 
