597 the constant ringing in my head, the frequent coldness and numbness of the ends of my fingers and my big toes, a tremor in my chest over my heart or at the "pit of my stomach" once in awhile. The prospect is disheartening, to say the least, and I had so much that I wanted to do, so many plans that I wanted to work out during the next few years and before the time came for me to retire from active work as the Museum! I cannot help feeling discouraged, but I mean to do my best to follow the doctor's instructions & win out as well as I can. Would that I had been able to persuade President Osborn and Mr. Sherwood that it was not necessary for me to come to Etah last summer, as indeed events have proved that it was not. Dr. Hunt says that I should in all probability not be in my present physical condition had I not come to the Arctic.