January 5, 1918 Becker, who is Osgood's assistant and has spent 2 years in South America, showed me around the mammal department. I looked over the exhibits but found only a few new bird groups. They have an oil bird group from Columbia. The Anthropology department has its floor space stacked full of cases so thickly that they touch one another and cannot be seen. At Noon I took lunch with Alexander Lanfer, head of Anthropology, at Marshall Field's restaurant on top floor. Lanfer has been in Tiber, west of Tackinler on the Lhasa road, but was turned back by the Chinese Government. He is a Tibetan scholar, and talks the language. In the afternoon Becker took me to the Adventurers Club where I met the President Russell Mott and several wealthy big game shooters. The Adventurers club has many members, among them T.R. McCutcheon, Lewis, Cole, Becker and Captain Foran who organized the Club. He was our press agent in the Roosevelt African 3rd Expedition and is now in France fighting under the British flag with rank of Major. January 6, 1918 This morning snow was falling heavily but I made my way from the LaSalle Hotel, where I had stopped, to the Pennsylvania Station. All the fast N.Y. trains have been taken off by the Government, but I managed to catch a slow train at 10am which departed 2 hours late. By dusk we had traveled beyond the snowstorm. The train was crowded and no buffet car was attached.