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Mr. Pairchild's reply, under date of July 5. 1917. reads: 
I have your letter of June 5 and am very much 
pleased to catch a tone of cheerful optimism in it 
which was lacking in your last letter. I hope 
your health has improved and will continue to do 
so until you are "back to your normal self again. 
Thank you very much indeed for your suggest- 
ions regarding the production of food. I am ask- 
ing Mr. Mender son to carry on some experiments 
with bean sprouts of the Mung bean and soy beans. 
. He is now working on the production of bean cheeses 
from soy beans, in cooperation with Mr. Morse. As 
I have already written you, Mrs. Kin is on the 
way over to China to investigate this whole soy 
bean cheese budness for the Bureau of Chemistry. 
Anything you can do to help her in her investi- 
gations will be keenly appreciated. 
I am glad to get this letter from Mr. Reimer 
tolyou. It indicates a friendly relationship be- 
tween you which I hope will ripen into a mature 
and deep friendship. If you can arrange to meet 
him in Peking and help him with his collection of 
pear seeds and tie up with him, it will be per- 
fectly agreeable to me. You are one of the few 
men who are capable of burying their own person- 
alities in any work which will assist the country, 
even though some one else gets the major credit 
for it. In these days such a spirit as this Is 
the only thing that will save deraocrary from the 
ruin which threatens it in case this v;ar is won 
by the military autocracies. 
Mr. Dor sett is out at Chico getting up the 
inventory for next year. We are planning to put 
Mr. Russell on the jujube proposition. He has 
carried on some experiments already in the ger- 
mination of the seeds, and I think has become 
very much interested in the vrhole proposition. 
Your letters of June 5 and 6, one addressed 
to me and the other to Mr. Dorsett, both arrived 
on July ?, and the package of films has also 
been received. The prints, however, have not 
yet come in. 
I note what you say with regard to Mr. Rei- 
mer 's writing an article for the Journal of 
Heredity, but I am afraid this will be quite out 
of the question now, as he expects so soon to 
leave for the Orient. I hope you will urge him 
to prepare an article of not too technical a 
December 31, 191? . 
