1114 WEST OREGON STREET 
URBANA, ILLINOIS f, t \j .. y , _ I. Q 9^ 
0 , 3 ar Oollias:-- 
Many thanks for your cl? or description of tn? mour- 
Hi a fr ob Sta.Aane. I ti |1 • 5 hsvs that p u a a t 
solved, and certainly tfu mi orpretation of the asms Oouv 
lu Oheuiroa which the inhabitants smpLoy should have th? 
preference to that aais by Professor Col ?esq in a fog. 
Fernaii and I seem ssch to be ia & hole, as it were! 
I refer to Parnell Basin eai Pa&sa litio*Still I a® roof 
compli® satai by the appellation,though I foal it unie-ssr 
vsi.The pi 3 o- had s remarkable fascination for me,bowevs 
3 o i I sa gLsi to b - connected with it, ; ven though un¬ 
worthily. 
I hsva urged Pernali to try to writs tip the 3asp? 
artiois of which he has been speaking this winter,rather 
than waiting for -till another campaign. 8 *or that will 
surely reveal much more still to be ions, and the result 
will b- indefinite postponement.I have seen so much of 
men—especially Harvard men,of whom I could name several 
examples—iefarrtfing publication until everything was 
absolutely definitive and perfect and then dying before 
their res u 1 t s w 3 re msd 3 of any usto anyo n e th a % I f 331 
