Oct 31: Washington with many BS policies - he is happy now to be a free-lance. For one thing, he is very dubious about the new "wild-life institute" which Darling has promoted (including ammunition-makers, auto mgrs, Kodak people, "Conservationists" - all & "rest") most especially game!) Nov. 1 Visited Waldo L. Schmidt, in invertebrate dept. of Nat'l Museum; talked about Galapagos Islands - he plans a visit that region again if possible. Replied to Swarth's work on birds there, and need of study of skeletons of Geospiza. Met Mary T. Rathbun, a very little elderly lady with a big head; she reminisced about a trip she made into Yosemite long ago with a party headed by C. Hart Merriam. Then visited with Geo S. Myers, curator of fishes - a Stanford graduate. We discussed the forsalry there, I support Ichthyology as based on the great Jordan-Gathead collections. Myers told me that Wilbur had verbally declared that this field of biology would not be allowed to lapse; but nothing has been done about it. Incidentally, Myers told me he was present at