flesh she is entitled t© and perhaps a trifle more.She will bw a bigger wo¬ 
man than her mother, 
I was down having a ohat with Richmond the other day,and b© is a little 
doubtful that we shall ever see Robert this way again.He is perfectly content¬ 
ed out there,and evidently does mean to set bis face this way if he can possiblj 
help it.The last volumne he has been working on is in tyoe,and all done but the 
index which perhaps by now is all in print.How he can continue the succeeding 
volumnes without coming on here for a season to study specimens is more than 
I can see. In fact he cannot do so and do the work properly .,Ho doubt Oberholser 
and Richmond oan be of material assistance to him but they cannot undertake the 
whole job. 
I do not remember whether I had heard from Joe Grinnell when I last wrote 
or not.He is about committed to the plan of publishing the notes in three in¬ 
stalments, and adds that the contribution is much too valuable from the stand¬ 
point of the Condor to be returned bo me 'under any circumstances.So the thing 
is likely to appear in print reasonaby soon,perhaps in the next issue. 
Things are getting into such a muddle in Europe that I am totally at a 
loss to understand the present situation,except vaguely,or to see any present 
outcome. It looks as though Wilson intending having his own way as to the treat- 
y, and the other powrrs are evidently afraid to oppose him very far since the po¬ 
sition of America is much too important to run the risk of losing her support.I 
am neither clear as to what the outcome is likely to be nor as to what it ought 
to beand must await the trnd of events to determine.One thing is clear and that 
is the Germans are wide awake to the possibilities of the foment,and are doing 
their utmost to litigate the penalties of the war by all sorts of misrepresentat 
and subterfuges.So far as I oan see pretty much the same old gand, with some exoe 
tions in in the saddle.The Egyptian outlook is full of possibilities for trouble 
