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be going to make them prove him culpable?  Of course he may be a poor accountant himself.  Heaven help me if I were responsible for funds!  It must be cruelly hard on him.
     Good for Dr. Abbot, but I wish you could have contributed the introductory article for vol. on botany.  I wonder what Maxan thinks.  Has he written [[underlined]] anything [[/underlined]] yet?  Yucca Whippleii is the "Joshua Palui" isn't it?  I saw it in the Mojave Desert.   Have you written Jepson about it? It is certainly interesting that an astronomer should [[strikethrough]] discover [[/strikethrough]] observe what botanists have not noted in their own field.
     I had a letter from Bitancourt, thanking me for getting the publications for him. I

Transcription Notes:
Jepson = Willis Jepson