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whole thing.,I was fortunate enough to have looked up some of the very things 
upon which examined;.otherwise I would never have pul lied thorugh in the 
world.*! had Sart’-s zone business by heart and by a most fortunate chance I 
was up in about the hardest question of all,the classification of ft.Ai. birds.. 
So now I am Administrative Biologist in fact as well as name.,.Ther is a 
good deal about the work that I do not like at all,but I am trying to keep 
from making up my mind in the premises until I have given the position a 
thoronhg trial..The confinement is very harder who all through my official 
life could come and go as I pleased now have to be on time and render an aeou: 
account of all my doings..Morover,the kind of work is new to me and my confouoi 
ed head is not serving me as it should.However,I am pretty sure that I shall 
get through the summer somehow,and I hope that another winter will straighten 
me out..As it is I am much better off than when you were on and as a whole I 
believe I am getting stronger all the time. 
Hart is a miracle .Do you know he is a much abler man than I have ever 
given him credit for and that is saying much..The way he follows details is 
marvellous and to a certain extent weakens his efforts by taking his tima.He 
is so much in love of accuracy and precision that he will allow noting to go 
without his personal supervision..This peculiarity is what is killing him;he 
will not allow a thing to go which is well enough,but insists that it shall 
be done as well as it possibly can be,whether a letter or a report for publi- 
catioa.This love for perfection is well enough but it costs much in time and 
labor ..Well, somehow I cannot regard myself as settled down in Washington yet, 
but the settled feeling may come in time. 
