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I remember that was the year that "Parlez-moi d'Amor" was very popular.  Dr. Stejneger and I waltzed to that.

Henson: Yes, now is he the one did a mazurka?

Mann: Probably.

Henson: One of them did.

Mann: We used to go to the Stejneger's for Christmas Eve dinner.  Then they would take hands and dance around the Christmas tree, singing "Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum."  He would make a great ceremony out of opening packages.  Their kitchen was in the basement their dining room on the first floor. . .oh, no, their dining room was on the second floor--dining room and living room.  Anyway I know we spent a good deal of time on the second floor; that certainly is where the Christmas tree was.  Dr. Stejneger would run up and down those stairs, bringing glasses of wine, or bottles of beer, or something. [Laughter]

Henson: With no problem at all.

Mann: No problem at all.  He was very active and very well until just the last.

Henson: He again was a very broad gauged scientist, wasn't he?

Mann: Oh, yes.  He was originally an ornithologist; that was his training in Norway.  He came here and applied for a job as an ornithologist; and the Smithsonian or the Natural History Museum, I