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one or two articles in the Journal of Heredity 
upon v^hich I should like your criticism. 
Do not forget that we are all watching your 
movements as keenly and as interestedly as we 
can during these trying war times and are glad 
of any scraps of information you can give us 
which will show v/here the cheapest foods are 
and how we can live on them. 
Mr. Pairchild Vifrote Mr. Meyer again on May 8, 191B, 
as follows: 
By the time this letter reaches you you 
v/ill doubtless have heard of Mr. Swingle's 
departure for China. He expected when he 
left here to spend some time in Japan before 
going over to China, and he may at the present 
writing "be in Tokyo or Yokohama. If you get 
back in Peking, you are sure to get in touch 
with him, and I am confident that he can give 
you a very good idea of conditions over here, 
which have changed mightily since you left. 
Since Mr. Stuntz's death the work of 
searching for new things in the literature has 
pretty nearly come to a standstill, but v/e have 
decided to put young Russell on the job and give 
him a chance to shov/ v/hat he can do. I £un in 
hopes that in the course of a fev/ weeks he will 
be able to get in shape a memorandum for you 
respecting the things which we v/ant from China, 
beginning with reintroductions of plant material 
which you got and v/hich failed to grow. 
It is almost impossible to give you in a 
letter any idea of the radical changes which 
are going on around us. The boys are all getting 
into the army as fast as they can and before you 
get back here, in my opinion, the women will be, 
as they are in England, making aeroplane parts, 
magnetos for engines, shells and other destructive 
apparatus. This work of the women has scarcely 
begun, but we can all feel it coming v/ith the in- 
creasing severity of the fighting on the Western 
front. 
As I wrote you in a recent letter, the things 
of greatest interest to us are those connected 
with the dietary of the Chinese. Everyone is 
asking how it is possible for people to live as • 
September ?1, 1918. 
