May 26 - H.Y. 79 Too many kinds, 1 subjects – m-mograph of seals, birds (tubnavins), local fauna and flora. He cannot possibly do good work in so many directions. J.T. Nichols collaborates in the "fauna and flora of Long Island," as also in some of the systematic bird papers. At Columbia University, this morning, saw the zool. laboratories, and especially T.H. Morgan and his flies (Drosophila). He seems to depend largely on his assistants – graduate students, to do the detailed observing & handling of flies. There is a general air of disorder and carelessness; but Chas. L. Camp says Morgan is keen enough to more than counteract the influence of this. Morgan showed me his castrated fowls, where secondary sexual