moves in who has developed the disease.I was sonny to disturb the equilib¬ 
rium of the family,but thought it my plain duty to warn them of the possibili¬ 
ties. That neighborhood is where Howard goes when he wants specimens of Anophe¬ 
les, which also are plrenty on and about our island.We have no near neighbors 
there and hrnce the danger from the disease is very remote,but all the same I 
always slept there under a mosquito bar,and so for that matter did A.K. 
Mrs Mook’s remarks about me made me smile.I fancy that she had a precon¬ 
ceived idea of scientific persons and expected to find me,as others,rather dull 
and stupid.3he was,perhaph, hardly prepared to find a man of science ordinarily 
bright on every day topics.I was much interested in watbhing her,and endeav¬ 
oring to find some traces of the old man,but i failed.I think she is an uncom¬ 
monly nice womwn with mucji of the temperament of her mother, and probably many of 
the tastes of her father,and you and I both know him to be a good naturalist. 
I shall invite them to oome to town and to my aprtments;or to lunoh at the Cosmo; 
where we now have a womans dining room,and then go to the Natioaal Museum.They w 
want to see my diatoms among other things, 
I oresume you are beginning to think seriously of Gonaora,although 
vegetation cannot be as far advanced with you as it is with us.All the same the 
first of May is at hand,and even when a bit backward the foliage has a way of oa 
catching up in a hurry,and by the middle of the month everything is as usual. 
Sincerely Yours 
