My good and lasting friend Herbert H. Ivans of Charlottesville, 
wrote me regarding more valuable books that he wants to donate to our 
island laboratory., Perhaps more would like to emulate Mr. Ivans. All who 
have had occasion to use the facilities of our library have remarked how 
useful and valuable it is. Having now new book cases, dehydrators, and 
the new building, I intend to devote more time to the library. 
Quite a large number write to me that they cannot get our annual 
reports. If you will write to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 
Washington 25 D.C., I am quite sure that you can get copies of our annual 
reports. I wish I had the time, and the funds, I would like to prepare 
somewhat the same general type of reports that was published during the 
regime of Doctor Tom Barbour, without duplicating the annual reports 
prepared by the Smithsonian. In such reports we could include interesting 
and valuable material that we can’t very well include in the official 
reports. 
Another thing that is in the offing is the preparation of the 
history of the island, and I know no one who could undertake this gigantic 
task but I. 
I would like to continue writing but I must stop somewhere or 
else I will never finish. I hope to see more of you down here this coming 
year. I wish I could see each one of you individually to wish you a very 
Merry Christmas, and a very happy, prosperous Hew Year. May the peace and 
happiness of Christmas be yours every day this coming year. God Bless you 
