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old times to be on the gallery with hiau, 
We have been having cool weather for the most though with warm days 
sprinkled in.I most earnestly hope the season will prove a coal one for if 
I can get through the summer somehow I shall expect great things from the 
winter.I hope to join the island club and then shall spend about every 
Sunday up there.ilhere are many things about the Survey and my work there 
which would Interest you mightily but the deatails are so many that I can¬ 
not write them but must wait till we meet.Hart is gradually unfolding his 
purpose in getting me on the work and he has not told me all even yet,He is 
getting alarmed about his own work,and realizes that he has not many years 
in which to complete the more important projects he has taken hold of and 
has advanced more or less towadds Completion .He thinks that I am going to rell 
eve him from administrative work but I doubt if I can;and what is more I dpubt 
if there is a man in the. world who can^whom ha will allow to..He simply cannot 1 
help overlooking every little detail,believing that no pne can dq the things 
as he can. * 
there was a White-rayed Virao built a nest within two feet of the trail 
that goes down to the ferry„laid her eggs and hatched her eggs befdre the nest 
was discovered by any of the BiologistaJlQrover ythe nest was in plain sight 
that is was not hidden by leaves.! figured that the men had made 75 trips by i 
the nest,nearly brushing it each time,and never discovering it till it con-i " 
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tained yqung..,It is the most beautiful instance of protective eoloration that 
I havr any knowledge of.When you know where to look you can discern the strucr 
ture several yards away.I suppose you are in Concord. 
Sincerely 
