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HENSON: I noticed too, it mentioned that at that point, when he would go, let's say, to Mexico, or Haiti, or someplace like that, that he would bring back specimens for the National Museum, but also live animals for the zoo. He was collecting for the zoo at the point.

MANN: Yes.

HENSON: Did he know Ned Hollister and have close ties at the point?

MANN: Oh, yes, he knew Ned Hollister. I think he must have known Frank Baker, because if you read [[underlined]]Ant Hill Odyssey, [[/underlined]] you recall that he worked briefly in the zoo when he was seventeen, eighteen years old. Baker would have been director at that time I think.

HENSON: That's right, that far back.

MANN: He was always very much in love with the zoo and with animals; he loved animals. I was warned when I married him he'd have snakes in the apartment, and frogs, and turtles in the bathtub. [Laughter]

HENSON: That was the least of it, considering what you wound up with eventually. [Laughter] Also, was there much contact with the other parts of Agriculture, specifically Bureau of Biological Survey? Did you see those people much?

MANN: I didn't when I was in the Bureau of Entomology, but after we were married, Bill knew a great many of them.