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42_20 New York Harper a new copy, asking Harper to annotate it and send it to him )Sargent), after which Harper would present him with the copy. Small describes HArper as tremendously energetic. Harper sent Sargent pages upon pages of closely types (single-spaced) matter - I think Small said 34 pages! (See also p. 460, V. 43.) Small is busily engaged upon his Flora or Manual of the S. E. United Stated which is to have an illustration for each genus. His other Manual is to be called a Manual for the South Central States. Small deprecates giving time to mere talk when the printing press will serve instead. He said some persons had not discovered that the printing press had |
42_21 Jan 6, 1926 been invented. It seems that when McDougall was here he introduced the idea of a weekly conference of the staff. Small considers this mere waste of time. However he took me to the meeting which chanced to occur that afternoon. Britton presided. I saw Howe (who is now smooth shaven - I remember him with a full beard); Gleason who has very prominent nose and eyes with a somewhat Semitic cast of countenance; and one or two others, including S [Fout]. Harper of Columbia was there but left early. Rydberg was speaking when I arrived. He talked on a collecting trip in the Allegheny Mts. of the South. He spoke English very imperfectly, certainly very indistinctly; he was halting |
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