THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL. RESEARCH 66-W STREET AND AVENUE A NEW YORK Sept. 30, 1925. Dear Robert, Well we had a fine time in Baltimore. I went down Friday afternoon ,and D.,an came Saturday. I spent a hectic day on Saturday. &de my major task to look after t`ne praof. . The proof of the colored plat& is nothing short of wonderful, There was one bad mistake, namely t'nat the mitochondria were printed B&e red but I called McGruder*s attention to it and he is going to have that fixed, said that it would not be hard to do. I can't see but that the three color half tone is about as good as a lithograph and Mr. Didusch was siqlg delighted. Doan had read the page proof and picked.?. ui;: a few bad mistaked such as the word& at the end of a line and at the be&r& of the next. I take all blame for letting it by but it rather interests me that $lney regard Dr. F.R.Smith such,an expert proof reader and he did not get them I think that they were all in their type setting and not in our copy and Dr. Smith did not pick up a single one of them. Doas was really thrilled by the paper, thought that it was the best yet. I gave the page proof the final once over and am to see the proof of the colored plate once more* About those zinc cuts.. I suppose t:.tBat tlney mean that the zincs are TV to be destroyed if not wanted, whereas I thought t'rlat they meant ones originals of charts end drawings so I said yes on their blanks. I did not want thoso z Inc cuts I so sent them on to you to bee if with with your love of saving all .records you wanted them. If you don1 t throw them away. I found that they had no intention of returning all of our charts. DR had Miss Caqon telephone about them or I should never have gotten them. She knew a woman a Miss Xnox who found them for me, she said at first that she did not think t&t they had t'nem, but &he finally got them. I bra :ght the v;hole package up here in the machtie and think that she included your &Atof the TB ones with mine of the Rhythms. I t`nought that you wrould be much more likely to get them fro:u me than from the Williams and Wilkins. I think McGruder too awfully nervous to look a.fter things in fact I should say that he was on the ragged edge of 3 hervous brake down and I think Miss Stocksdale about as co:.qlete- ly incoqetent as any secretary.? I have ever come in contact with. Sine can tell little and that little is always wrong. Dean and I drove u2 to Rew York on Monday. &me through in 12 hours rand had a. grand time. The car is si;ir-!ly wonder%l with its new carburettor, goes like a bird end has a wonderful pic.;k up. Doan was so Gleased over it that he is trying th persuade his father to switch to a Franklin w hen he buys a hew car. I stayed at the Hookers of course and Doan stayed with Orthelo at the Dormatory. The Hookers had Wislocki, Langwortiiy and Doan out for Sunday s-,qer and the Rubies and Trauts came out for tea. Traut is haspy in pathology aid is going to work on the `kidney. I sonl the Weeds. Dr. Need is very busy over the drive. He. will be in New York on Friday. Do not know whether he will have time to come over here or not. He said that Halpert had been pretty blue. He is still in-bed but gets u;, to go to t'ne doctors. His address is care of Dr. Lo Brown. Saranac Lake i)-you want to write. Dr. Huber had a fairly nice summer, finally passed his stone. lis wife went to Switzerl,znd, saw his father and mother and got his address in South America from t'nem and t'nen pestered him all s&rer with letters. Huber told me that there were things worse than his kidney stone to bother him this summer. He certainly got himself into a mess THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH 66lH STREET AND AVENUE A NEW YORK wit'n that marriage. Downey has asked for a very critical review of Jordan's last paper. I think that I shall decline. I an not Been for the job. I am completely disgusted over Kaximow having adstracted ours, it was at his own request. However I think that Maximow is getting a little education in this country. His last paper in the Klinische Wochenschrift, 1925, 4, No. 31, 1436-1488 is certainly decidedly clearer than the paper in the Physiological Reviews. He has learned by reading our papers that his first work had a good point in it and what that point was. In the paragraph in which the says that the Kupffer cell is no argument that endothelium can develop into a phagocytic cell because the Xupffer cell is not ordinary endothelium ( Who ever said it was?)( I thinkt thata real classic in the way of logic. The Wpffer cell is not a modified endothelial cell because it is not an ord+nary endothelial cell. How is thhst for clear thinldng. Then he goes on to say that the Eapffer cell &s not endothelium anyw3y because it is reticulozendothelium. Nevertheless I think that this is the clearest paper he has written. I don't intend to get my fingers burnt in reviewing Jordan's paper. I'll glance at it 3nd if I canlt write a perfectly perfun.6tox-y review I shall let it alone. I had written to Willis for a culture of the bovine organism v:e used but he was not in town. Be has returned now and if he can* t send it to me I shall go down over a SZnday and get it. They tell us here to use tne same statain that we are accustomed to if we want the same effects. I advise you to do the same. We are to h3ve a conference with Dr. Lewis, Paul A. on Friday because Dr. Flexner says that he is the real expert on the dosage of !TR. I shall show him our charts. Tie are to give the work at the staff meeting on Nov.Eth. `#hen is it that you are going to Ealtimore? Let me knom, because if I have to go down again for t`ne culttie I might plan to be there at the same time. Had a nice letter from Corner. He is starting in with his first class in Histology. He wanted all our reprints, Your letter asking me to see Streeter came after I had returned. If he doesn't send them soon let me know, I will speak to him when I see him next time, but if you get in a hurry I will write. I am sure that he plans to send them to t'ne laboratory. We haven't heard yet how you teke to the idea of coming up here to work in the spring if we get anything interesting going. Very cordially yours, n