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skinny sort with a queer moon face on top of it, and a foreign accent. He has a glint of humor apparently. And is bent on cleaning up the place and arranging it his own way, which is quite unlike old Nathan Bank's way. I am glad he isn't working on coleoptera and hope he will leave Darlington's room alone. He accepted me on Bradley's recommendation and told me to make myself at home and come as often as I liked, and that was all I saw of him. at noon Doris came up and we had lunch in Miss Bryant's room with another pair who are working on spiders this summer. She told me that Darlington hasn't come yet + is trying to get out of the army but has to have a "replacement" - someone to take his place in it. I didn't

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have a chance to gossip with Miss Bryant because of the company but am looking forward to a talk at some later date.

After lunch we went to Boston + bought Doris a pair of moccasins just like the ones she has worn for 2 years (the kind she puts pennies in).  They were a lucky find, as they had just come in and only in a certain "quota" these days.  She came home hugging them & taking them out to look at on every bus & car.  She is perfectly satisfied for once.

She has just been down town - no meat since we've been here, and only 1 kind of fish in today, a flounder filet. She got 2 lbs, enough for baking
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Transcription Notes:
Darlington - was the MCZ's assistant curator of insects from 1932 to 1940, from 1940 to 1951 the Henry Clinton Fall Curator of Coleoptera, and from 1951 until his retirement in 1971 the Curator of Insects. He was also at Harvard University from 1962 until his retirement in 1971 the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.[