Douglas Stewart, Director,



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa.



My dear Stewart;-



In my last letter I told you that I would adminstrative work you may wish to know more in detail.  I will try to be as possible and not weary with detail.  I will try to be as brief as possible and not weary you with details.



As you undboubtedly know the conducting of the work here has been left very much to my judgment -- in most things entirely so.  I have tried to do the best I could with the funds available.  It has been a big undertaking and much of the work is such that it was not economical to work with only two or three men.  Moreover there have been frequent intimations that preparations.  Last summer I was told that the specimens must be on thier way to museum soon.  Little boxing had been done for a long time for a long time as lumber was not available and the boxes hold together much better if they do not stand too long in the intensely hot sun, as as under these conditions the boxes warp and the boxes hold together much better if they do not stand too long in the intensely hot sun, and these conditions the boxes warp and the nails loosen.  This was decidely not the time to let any men go as it was not know when orders would be given to ship. Then came the news of the change in th e administration and the plan to send me out to look over the