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investigate, well for instance, the grapes and the Mediterranean fruit fly that they were so afraid would be introduced into this country. That was why Bill went to Spain, because he'd heard that the oranges in Valencia were infested with fruit flies, and he found out they were. So the United States was not allowed to import item. (This was true also of grapes from Almeria.)

HENSON: So what he was doing was very agriculturally or food related?

MANN: Oh, yes.

HENSON: Was he doing much systematics also in the museum?

MANN: Oh, yes, his real interest was taxonomy.  He was a great collector of especially ants--myrmecophiles and termitophiles--but he also had a big collection of beetles.  Before he retired from the zoo, sometime in the 1950s, he gave his collection--I think his entire insect collection--to the Smithsonian, and it was estimated there were a hundred thousand specimens of ants and almost as many beetles.  It was his lifetime collection.

One of the letters I have out to give you today was written to Bill when he was either a freshman or sophomore at Washington State College, in Portland, Washington.  It was from an entomologist in the bureau here, who eventually was a great friend of ours, Sievert [Allen] Rohwer, who was a specialist on wasps.  This letter was to thank Bill for sending him the species of [[underlined]] Oxybelis,[[/underlined]] and saying that one of them was a new one,