In the key to the Calippidae, Miss Rathbun had the subfamily 
Orithyinae, which never appeared again anywhere in the paper. I looked 
■up the species, of which Orithvia seemed to be the only one. It apparently 
is a Chinese species which has never been known in America. I spoke to 
her about it, then, and she took the subfamily out of the key and changed 
the key so it is in the proper order. 
I didn't get much help from the other room. It was the same 
old story of its being simpler to do it myself than to stand over him 
and see that he did it. I* lx tell you about it when you get back. I 
did manage to get him to check the definitions of Goneplacidae and 
Car cinoplaci nae with that of Geryon . and then he asked Miss Rathbun to 
do it, too. But I spent all day yesterday running the Brachygnatha 
and Brachyrhyncha to earth by myself. 
I notice that the genera are not always described in the order 
in which they are given in the keys, but I suppose this doesn't matter. 
I find them out of order in the earlier bulletins, too. Finding that 
subfamily Orithyinae makes me think that I ought to check through to 
be sure that every genus and spefcies given in a key is later described. 
There might be other omissions of the same sort. 
Anyway, the worst of this is over now. I think I have made 
all additions and insertions, and am now ready to sit down and start 
reading the whole thing. Oehser was in yesterday and, after seeing what 
I have done, agreed that I ought to read the whole thing. 
A letter came from Zetek a few days ago, a most helpful one, 
too. He mentioned one la line, the Maersk Line, which I had never heard 
of before. I wrote their New York office, and they are the first one I 
have found which actually gives a 25 $ discount to government employees. 
They say so in their letter. I wouldn't want to go to Panama with them, 
but I think I would like to go from Panama to L.A. on their boats. That 
fare is $90* but only $67*50 with the discount. Zetek recommended the 
line highly, and from their literature the boats seem nice. They have 
room for only a few passengers (20 or less) on each boat, but passenger 
accommodations are very nice. 
Zetek also sent up their last year's telephone directory, which 
lists all the steamship lines, with approximate dates of sailing, stops 
enroute, rates, etc. He checked those that he thought I would be interested 
in. He also said he was sure I could find a room in some home that would 
be cheaper than the hotel. I wrote him to thank him and to return the 
postage he put on the telephone directory. 
The enclosed letter just came from Mr. Robinson at the Explorers 
Club. I have written him telling him to send the addresses of his Trini- 
dad friends to me and I will send them on to you whenever 1 get an address 
from you. 
