
          the affairs of College than any other
 professor.


 The examination questions were
 well answered & I only sent them to
 you that you might judge how severe
 or how lax the examination was: a rebutter
 to any plea that I had not taught
 them any thing.


 I am steadily glueing plants &
 doing them very thoroughly but slowly
 as it is a trade that I am learning. Most
 of them are glued at several successive
 operations. I use a knife as a spatula
 to introduce glue under a place
 that does not stick the first time &
 in a few cases lay a plant, when very
 flexible & large, on the paper dry &
 put all the glue under. I leave the
 right hand lower corner for a future
 lable. 


 Have you seen Lowes $5 printing
 press! The smallest size occupies a space
 of [crossed out: 5] [inserted: 6] inches by 8 & prints a sheet of 5 inches
 by 6! I do not know how fast or how
 well it works.


 Can any thing be done to extract from
 Thurber a report on those matches.


 Please give him a good scolding from
 me. I have written him once on the 
        