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Whitman, Charles Otis

Asking Whitman to help with Miss Angell's tuition
Talking about collection that offers opportunity for further investigation. Summer course possibility.
Discusses the vertebrates and the invertebrates and their veins.
Whitman asks Conklin when he is planning to go to Woods Hole for the summer, as students including Lillie have already arrived.
Asks Conklin whether he and others plan to support the Journal to be published under Ginn & Co.
Congratulations to Whitman.
Whitman reports to Conklin that Walter Sonneberg wrote him a few times to discuss evolution. Whitman hypothesizes Sonneberg is looking for evidence to invalidate evolution and Whitman says he must be "a believer in Revelation."
Letter written in German.
Talks about some plates.
Announcement of the Zoological Bulletin, which will accompany the Journal of Morphology. Whitman will be in charge of the editorial along with Wheeler.
Talks about correspondence with Macfarlane.

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