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course. Then there was this little separate building, very small, sitting all by itself out in then lawn. It was nice; it was a very pleasant place.

HENSON: Oh, yes.  Were most of the entomologists there?

MANN:  Oh yes.  Well, some of them had offices in the [United States Museum of] Natural History building. That's where Dr. [William M.] Mann's office was. He didn't have an office in the same building where I was, which is probably why I didn't meet him for some time. Do you want to know how I met him?

HENSON: Yes, let's hear that.

MANN: One day I had to take the bibliography of a manuscript over to the central library in the Natural History Museum to check the titles, to be sure the pages were right, and all that sort of thing. The librarian showed me into an office where there were two desks. They were facing each other, right close together, but they had a giant bookcase so I couldn't see who was sitting at the other desk. But there was a little square opening, so that if the two people who were sitting there were friends or colleagues I suppose they could pass books and papers back and forth. I was working on this bibliography, and the man on the other side pushed a box of chocolates through, and he said, "Have a chocolate." I said, "No, thank you,"[Laughter] And he said, "Have a chocolate. They're good for librarians." I said, "I'm not a librarian, I'm an editor."  "Well, have a chocolate anyway, " he said. [Laughter]