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taiaik* We bsve not aven started to drav up oar plaixs for it^ axcap# 4ft jk Vaiy 
g^aaral way. Hara we will hare to apain start brlnglsi(^ errer graTelf ataiii^ 
ataelf end eamast) a^id X feal sura that tha work will hare to ba dma by - jwiy 
Btanji paid out <rfr trust funds. I wish someons could flfura out ftsr m how ils ^ 
oocdd do this otherwise, end conserve our trust fuiads. I cmi taka care of 
gravel, sand, eement, steel, etc., I mean the putting up of the foras and pdftife ’ 
Ing the ftsncrete. 
If yea y£*t tli8 ntnre^e tank for water put in now, let oe know. It Is m» of 
many uryents. 
Y'^1 refer tb'':%© taileta in the main building. There hmo been times when th^ 
did not vork well,, saii we feel that this is due largely to ^ose us4^ ihm, 
p.ic is a preaaujm effair, needs larrcr pipe. In the new building I m putting 
" •^rpe, ^kar» tl^ tank fills up, and you pull the chain or tmw 
the lerer. this will-b# better sirtes it uses a a.: 
that those usinr thepa will flush, them each time. 
pipe,- provided also, 
(2) I still pat fee MMm sfter fee new Ghapiian house. Me keep 
df>or lofked when thit eo#tt--is not there> which'is wise, And the cook d^s not 
lesgVe the kitohep wife the stoves burning, Is I said In ly first paragra^p 
it $M a Question of values. I dc not etmsider fee kitohes a serious fire rlidE* 
1 consider the main laboratory a bigger ri^, and I believe Mstmore also 
Siaad It up that way. 
But let u.? awjTTje feet the kitchen is fire-risk 0®, ¥© v.'ill laov© our library, 
herbariaa, secies indexes etc to fee i^pper floor of that new building. It was 
oil* Int'-ntton fe use this old library building, which Is iraproof, for fee 
kitohea when we would rebuild fee kitehea. Ve eonM* feerefm^. aake fe» 
l^r the sew Mtchen we will have to have plans drawn up, specif 1 cations. 
Sell f» etc., and this, if we try to do it reel soon, wUl be a tfee- 
esusut^ljif Job* I do not knew if you recall, ^t fee ground whex^ we have the 
, present kitchen is none to® good, we will have to consider "soa# fill wife a 
well relnfcectd retaining wall. 
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lew il^, If we start ai^ such wcark, fee laborers and iwtd.seRs Which fee con¬ 
tractor will have, will have to sleep sen^where. seftr, laying the eon- 
sswte fleer, they will be in Chapiaati house, but t^ will be feroudbt wife it 
before Ifeielrla qJiartet arrives the 29th. after feat, they Will 
have to sle<^ the ground floor of the am JmilMm ^11# the rest of fee 
wovk is geisf e«. , ' - 
brli^ the question of funds, nondefence l^sds pr<rt>ably difficult to 
this Is tepOPtant. Too bad that we could siWMihow have arranged for 
•war** research on the Island. 
^dc ebewt peisti^ the woodwork of the old big lahoratozy building with 
‘e-resisti^ paint, le you know of a fire-resistant paint. I do not. Lei 
kow, and if trfts, lst*s get it and use It. 
As I rsoall, Vetftsre 
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that probably fee main lab<wfratory building 
