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May 29 New York
He got out the field notebooks of his expeditions - one in Brazil written in 1866 (I think it was) the other then northern Dakota in 1873. He read extracts, and commented from memory recounting incidents in crossing the plains and with the Indians. Then he talked about South American wasels,
which he has just been studying, cases in monographure, and his
experience in meeting at Monaco
with the International Zoological Congress
in 1913 (?).
Called on J. Gilbert Pearson this
forenoon, at offices of Nat. Assoc. of
Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway.
a very commendable thing is the
modesty of the office furnishings -
in marked contrast to those of
Hornaday for instance. An appear
of poverty and crowdedness would