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and you ought to have heard Hubbard stick up for you and say you knew what you were writing about. And they concluded it was a pity that two nomenclatures couldn't be agreed on. After Ames had gone, I nearly exploded with wrath. Oh, I was so mad. I said I was thankful Sid was away from [[strikethrough]] Cam [[/strikethrough]] finicky Cambridge, that he didn't like A nomenclature any better than Cambridge but it was a minor matter compared with being dominated at Cambridge, that you were finding your own mind down there and aside from a few little things like nomenclature, everything was fine, that you liked everybody there, and they weren't trying to pull things to pieces all the time.  I said when H. said that he and a good many others felt pretty bad to see you leaving Cambridge, that it wasn't your fault you went, that they kicked you out for McBride, but that I thought they never did you a better turn. I said that you had been developing horns there, and couldn't be as malleable as McBride,

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who, if he was anything the way he looked, didn't even know when he was being made a cat's paw of. I raged -- knowing Hubbard sympathized with you.  Hubbard after consideration, agreed it was your salvation getting away, and said he had said that he regretted your leaving Cambridge, because he knew what C. was losing, that he and a good many others felt you were by far the biggest man C. had seen for a good many years, and that you were too good for Washington. He said that he thought you were not chosen instead of McBride because they wanted a man knowing western flora. He said that he personally didn't come in contact with MLF and Robinson and so got on all right. I smoothed it over by saying I was very glad that you had had your training at Harvard, but that now I was more glad that you were coming to your senses and having a mind of your own away from them, and nobody could in their presence.

And then H. told me about McBride. McBride resigned - of his own accord according to H. - because he saw no prospect 
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