good to live with and a de-(2/18 sternined traveler, excellent for arctic life and work, but not suf- ficiently interested in zoology or zealous enough to do the work that lay around him and for which there were adequate facilities and apparatus at hand, though he could not have the power boat sometimes when he wanted it. Mac holding that walrus must be procured for dog and man food. Dr. Hunt and Jot were not men- tioned in this discussion, I think. Mac thinks that I have ex- ceeded the Museum's authority and interfered with his position and work up here in an unwar- rantable manner during the first months of my being at Par- ker Snow Bay, while I hold that there was justification under the circumstances for what I did and said, and that both he and I seem to have been misrepre- sented to each other by Peter Frencher and others including some of the members of the staff. Some of my words certainly have been quoted out of their connection and in a misleading way. No