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Dear Ildo:
'hen I wrote you, I was really looking for a justification
of the time and expense to come to Madison -- and your letter gives
it. Mr second paper at the Congress comes on the morning of the 17th.
Unless I wire you -- which is extremely improbable -- I shall take U
train from 7ashington that afternoon, which ought to put me in ehadison
fairly early on Jaturday. I plan to come through as quickly as possi-
ble and will wire you as to the time of my arrival. I hope the fact
that it is saturday will not make my coming impractical; if it does,
please write me at 32 Cunnincham Ave...Floral Park.N   , and I'll
re-arrange the schedule. Though I'd like to spend several days in
Madison I simply must clean things up as quickly as posible and get
back to work, so anything you can and will do to expedite matters
will be appreciated. I have only a little more than a month in the
Jtates Und nust make every minute count. From Madison, I shall pre-
sumably go on to Ann ,rbor; I've been corresponding with them about
the same matter.
ould the Kumlien Club like a paper the night of the 17th?
If so I'll read one on "An Ecological Depression on the Peruvian
Coast." I believe they would be interested -- and it might give
some of the authorities an insight into how my mind works; the paper
is a by-product, bibliographically weak because there is little lit-
erature available here, but I believe it is well worth doing. To
illustrate it I shall need a projector for 2X2 inch lantern slides;
if the University doesn't have one available, you can probably borrow
one from Kodak. Most of the slides are Kodachrome. The slide carrier
should be t.ick enough to take Kodachrome mounts inside glass --
which the Kodak projector does. Please don't think me presumptuous
in making such a suggestion; I do it because I think some of the
brethren would like to see something of the birds down here.
could you be good enough to see that Dr. Howard Field knows
of my coming. I've got to know his parents in Lima -- they're grand
people -- and want to discuss briefly with him an idea I think is
new, spider management. I believe he has done much with Professor
Noland.
Juana, unhappily, will not be with me, but the Jaques want
to come over from ar. T.S.iioberts' museum where Lee is working. One
of my major disappointments is that they are not in New York, and
the Madison trip will not only give no a chance to see them but to
have you people meet -- something I've long wanted to do.
After iMadison I hope to spend a day in Chicago, seeing Mrs.
Nice and Karl Schmidt.
,hat you say about Professor eyer is more than ever in-
teresting.  (All things being equal, I should not consider going
anrhere but Madison.) There are some interesting endocrinological
problems here, such as relation of soft p)art color to sexual status,
sexual periodicity within four or five degroes of the equator, etc.
I haven't given them much thought -- but I'd like to. .s I approach
nearer to an understanding of the problems here I become more and
more enthralled and, as I may have written you, am beginning to feel
I cannot hone to cover all my work in a PhD. thesis; I ought to
bring back data for years of study. But we must have a good session.
I suppose I ought to have a fairly definite and complete outline of
my work for your committee; even that is difficult because so much
is involved. But I want to do it not only because of my PhD. hopes,