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April 18, 1945

Time, Inc.
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York 20, N. Y.

At'n: "Letters Editor"

Sirs:

Upon receipt of your April 16 issue,aand upon starting my customary cover-to-cover perusal of TIME, I was amused by the nom de plume of Gulfport, Miss., correspondent (pp. 9-10). I wonder if your "Letters" editor knows the true and terrible identity of [[underline]]lachesis muta[[underline]]. And could the middle initials be an abbreviation of the same thing? Shades of Drs. Marsh, Picado and Ditmars!

Yours truly,

E. R. Silliman

ERS/eab,