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Ittaahituitmt, ®. (L 
April 2 ,1919 
Dear fills 
As you will notice by the enolosed letter Mrs Parley has finally 
reached Washington ana in due course of time I shall have the pleasure of meet- 
ing her after these many years.You will hardly recall the locality from which she 
writes , although you have passed near, if,, not right by it when we were on our way 
to the Henslow T s looality.lt is a pleasant part of Virginia although not very ac¬ 
cessible even by means of the trolley. 
We have had a marked change in the weather and for the past few days we have 
bern experiencing real winter weather with high gales. P^o) two days , indeed, it bis 
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at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and was as good a sample of what March can do 
when it starts out to go on& a rampage as one could well wish to see. I believe as 
the combined result of wind and cold ail the fruit has been destroyed in this regio 
This is happy news for the consumer.since in seasons when the blossoms are nipped; 
and the prospects for fruit utterly ruined then is the season when fruit is plenty 
and cheap.I will non pretend to explain the apprent anomaly;nor need I do so as you 
are in the business and no doubt fully understand the tactics of the producer.The 
fact remains tba^ now is the time when the prospects for peaches have utterly van¬ 
ished to lay in a supply of cholera morbus remedies for the kids and others with 
unrestrained appetites. 
Osgood came in yesterday*and I hear that Glover Alien ( as also Asaph^will be 
here along with many others who are interested in the proposed Society of mammal- 
ogists which is to have a preliminary meeting here this week.It would seem as thoug 
the enterprise was not to lack for interest and support at least at. the sensdoff. 
Stone will be here.Osgood reprts that Gory is in very good condition and is working 
