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Henson:   And Dr. Wetmore would have belonged to that, and Mr. Oehser, and people like that.  Did you do any collecting out on that island, I  guess, little insects?

Mann:     I think Dr. Mann did, but Dr. Wetmore couldn't have, I mean he wouldn't be allowed to shoot birds there.  But I think Bill could pick up an ant, I know he did.  Of course, I've read somewhere how many species have their type locality on Plummer's Island.  That is the type locality for species of insects, plants, grasses, all kinds of things.

Henson:   Because that's where they collected it.

Mann:     Yes, because that's where they were first found.  So that's been in existence for quite a long time, that club.  I forget now how long, sixty, seventy years at least.

Henson:   Then there would have also been the Vivarium Society.

Mann:     Bill founded the Vivarium Society.

Henson:   Oh, did he?

Mann:     Yes, it was for youngsters who like to keep cold-blooded pets.  That was one of my introductions to snakes.  I went to a meeting of this Vivarium Society--they met in the zoo office--and these young people, mostly boys, would bring in whatever their current pet was, and it was nearly always a snake.  At one of my first meetings, one man