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Most of the typing on the Venezuelan report is finished. 
You will need to fill in several references, and in some instances you 
give the common name for the species but for the majority of them you do 
not. And so another book will soon be off the pressJ 
Thanks to the Wetmore family I have enjoyed several fine 
lectures at the National Geographic. Mrs. Wet mo re asked me to use the 
tickets during her absence and I do appreciate it. 
Mr. Anderson has completed work on your floors and at present 
is polishing the furniture. I have asked Mr. Trembly to get an estimate 
on dry cleaning the table throw and rug in the study, both of which are 
badly in need of a cleaning. 
Mrs. Weirich lost her husband last week, and Bert has just 
returned from Dayton, Ohio where she went to the attend the funeral of 
her mother-in-law. She had a fall down a flight of stairs and suffered 
a broken hip, and I suppose the shock was just too much. Mrs. Awl 
is in the hospital again with her arm in a frame stiffering with bursitis. 
As for myself I have had a very bad case of laryngitis. 
Couldn't talk above a whisper for five days, the cold settling in my 
bronchial tubes and chest. It is the first time that I have had such 
a chest cold. I am still quite hoarse but feeling much better. Every 
one here seemed to lament the fact that you were not here to enjoy the 
silence of my voice. Is it as bad as that? 
One should not be envious of others but I do wish we had 
a little of the warmth and sunshine you write about. It has rained a 
good deal here and the wind has been cold. Nevertheless with it all 
the cherry blossoms are out and all the flowering shrubs are in bloom. 
It is very windy and disagreeable today. 
