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eloth covered casket-not ornate bat in keeping
with your mothers preferences. Clothes were
well ehosen by Mary M, and Phylile. She look-
v in deathe ats ;
ce nb services was brief and agin
scriptures, ‘ihe sun shone briefly at time of
services and burial, for which we were thankful»
Heavy snows and severe weather presesded.

Have a transcript of the service, names
of callers and ef those sending sympathy cards
and letters ete. which will be available on ~

eturne
pple Didn't realise mother’s influence had
yeached so deep and so far untilie fléod of mall
@ace from far and wide. as a result have had .
about 125 letters to write. Have answered about
88 to-date with many more tO 40

An understanding mother and wifes

Loyal to friends and relatives |

Ever conseleus ef spiritual raluese

Mother suffered little lf at ah) after the
initial etroke Gnd her paseing was peaceful.

Snjeyed your letter from Havana and &
number from you to 4nn whieh: she forwarded for
me to read. You overleok little in your study.

“You enlighten us on the soolal, political, econ-
omic and educational status of the people your
works take you among &s well as topography and
climatic conditions of the oountry.

As there are no sets of the black vul-
tire, Andean vulture, quetzal or gallinule; also,
any of the kites, in the collection, why not have
Guatamala's museum curatér procure these for us
and we will send him some of our good material
for same.e The informathomon the incubation of
sets, formerly requested, was appreciated and
completes the datas on these species.

Among the allers previous to mother's
funeral wers Drs. Cottam, Tanner, Hayward and
Beck. They are anxious for me to finish catalog-
uing and indexing notes ornitho@cgical. Have
worked out a system of keeping notes ete by ad-
apting a uniform page the size of an ordinary
volume with margins sufficient for the bindery
to work into a book if desired. This sheet is a
sample. Have completed four volumes and find it
works out satisfactorily. Treatment of subjects
of each species used in the index are similiar
toe those noted by Bent-thus one can determine
from the index which will designate dates,not
book and page, the occurence-migration, breeding
etc of any species noted without necessarily go-
ing to the notes for detailed information.

Have been thinking I would make the B.Y.

a deal-if they would give me a grant of say $6,000
would spend & year in rewriting notes, injecting