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My address after June ?3d will "be c/o Hotel 
Sherman, Chicago. I should like to ask the 
Resolution Committee to take action on his 
death, if you think "best. 
I am on the Artoretum Committee of the 
Association, and will suggest that in the pro- 
posed National Artoretum a suitatle Memorial 
be made for Prank Meyer. This might take the 
form of a properly inscribed collection or an 
administration building. 
Mr. Curt S. Pfeiffer, 1 West Blst St., New York City, 
June 12, 1918: 
. It seems incredible that our friend, Prank 
Meyer, who was so full of life and activity and 
the spirit of adventure should Indeed be dead. 
I can readily imagine that as you say the nev/s 
just made you sick. It did me too. Since he re- 
turned to China, I had seen his name from time 
to time appear in your journal in connection 
with various specimens he had sent over and 
every time I saw his name, I could see the ag- 
gressive personality it stood for. 
I asked him on- one occasion whether he ever 
had any fear of assassination in his wanderings, 
on which he was so frequently almost alone, but 
he did not seem to give it a thought. It does 
look, however, as if his falling from the steam- 
er, can hardly have been an accident. 
If you have a photograph of him, I should 
very much like to have a copy. 
Mr. Pfeiffer wrote again on June 19, I918: 
. I was very glad to see one or two short 
notices of Mr. P. N. Meyer's death in some of 
the evening papers today. Meyer ," admittedly, 
amongst those who know, has done excellent 
ig_£^- work, but the fact of his lone travels for so many 
many years in Asia, has a picturesque quality 
" vmich I think should be brought to the attention 
of wider circles. Couldn't you get an article 
in the National Geographic Magazine, detailing 
to the general public v/hat he has accomplished, 
something about the manner of the man, v;ith 
some pictures from his v;onderful collection? 
It v;ould make an interesting article for all 
readers and it would be something of a posthumous 
acknowledgment of his v/ork. 
I kno?/ you will take this suggestion in the 
spirit in v/hich T make it. 
September ?1, 1^18. 
