Oct. 28, N.Y. special bit of history concerning it. Zimmer Rept bewailing the enormous cost of the Roosevelt Memorial -- a huge Rotunda built not, the Oval-Office. group of "wings" -- chiefly of architectural quality; "if only" the money could have been put into science! Murphy is reading proof on a big work on the water-finds of the seas around South America. Oct. 29 - N.Y. Attending the session of the Audubon Association most of the day. I am impressed with the new N.A.A.S. personnel, under the leadership of John H. Baker, new Executive Secretary. He is a good presider, vigorous, shows his sincerity. His associates, Eaton, Walsh, Petersen, Vogt, and others [as per "graph"] are all young, alert, personable, fearless. The president of the Association, Kermit Roosevelt, is less personable -- dignified but not stimulating: The whole group show a fresh point of view, useful in a changing world in order to meet the situations newly arising. In the evening heard a symposium of Washington bureau-heads speaking before the N.A.A.S. on "Conservation-- Silcox of forestry, Bennett of soil erosion.