March 2, 1937* 
This sheet doesn’t go on the carbon! 
It would do your heart good to see Mr, Shoemaker fuming 
over the proof! He is sweating blood over it, and I’m trying to be 
not too helpful. However, it’s the same old story; you have to pitch 
in and tell him what to do every step of the way. He couldn’t find any 
figures of Leucosia . I said, "Did you look up the references Miss 
Rathbun gave?’ 1 "Well, I looked up Fabricius. We don’t have the 
others here, I guess." I said, "Are they in the library? If we don’t 
have them, you’ll have to get them from the library. " He found one 
other, which was no help, and I asked, "Did you look up the Milne 
Edwards reference?" "Ho, the library doesn’t seem to have it," "Well, 
I said, "then send to the Library of Congress for it. You can’t just 
ignore it because our library doesn’t happen to have it." He finally 
found it, right here in our division, and it was no help. But the 
whole thing went like that; I might as well have done it myself, only 
I swore I would not I 
Florence called me up yesterday to read to me the telegram 
which she had sent you. She ought to be skinned! I told her I hoped 
it cost her plenty. She said it did cost more than she had figured on, 
but that you were worth it! She confessed, however, that she did not 
take it to the Western Union office herself. She was ashamed to, and 
made the other girl in the office the goat. That girl didn’t know what 
she was sending, either. If you should write her a card, you might rub 
it in. Tell her that you aren’t impressed with telegrams that the 
senders are ashamed to teke to Western Union themselves, or something 
like that! 
It seems to me I’ve worked harder these last two days than 
I did before you left. Can’t see that T’ve accomplished much, either. 
