THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
(THE OMAHA MEDICAL COLLEGE)

HENRY B. WARD, DEAN, LINCOLN
HAROLD GIFFORD, ASSOCIATE DEAN, OMAHA

ANATOMY
ROBERT H. WOLCOTT
C. W. M. POYNTER

LINCOLN. NEBR., 
         
Jan. 12 , ^&18 1906
Dear Shoemaker,
I should have sent this list long ago but Swenk had
it and asked me to leave it till he could make a copy - he has not
yet done so. But I notice a number of ommissions - where were Swenk,
Jont and miss Caldwell, whose names have been added, and where are
Wallace, Dickinson, Jones, whom I know consider themselves still mem-
bers. Dr. Everett asked me less than a week ago why he didn't ge a notice
of the meeting and why he hadn't had anything from the union. That
is one of Swenk's weaknesses as secretary ~ a member doesn't answer
a circular letter ~ "let 'em go." I spent a good deal of time on writing
personal notes and seeing local members personally ~ and held the 
members, which have recently been dropping away.

At the meeting the principal actions were decided on a quarterly 
journal ~ "The Kite" ~ first member to appear in April, and be as large 
as the funds will allow. Swenk, editor, Brone and advisory com-
mittee. A school committee we created with Jont chairmans.
Towne is president,

Mr Pagne vice-president, yourself reassure,
miss Jan Sant corresponding secretary, and executere comittee
-Jont, Lowry, and Barlow.

I began this letter, as you see nearly a week ago, and was interrupt-
ed. That same evening Emily was taken sick, entailing a trip for the 
doctor on my boat at 2 AM. She developed a slum emplion, a head cold, 
acute indigestion and a double tooth "contemporaneosly, as it were,"
and was a mighty miserable bit of humanity till yesterday. Allen
thought he was being neglected so he produced an attack of tonsilitis,
Mrs. Wolcott had no girl so you can imagine I haven't had any
spare moments, with my duties as cook and nurse and general 
housemaid, since the date at the head of this letter.

Naturally, I haven't much to chronicle. Haven't sent Blaisdell's sliff
either. Will try to get the box in shape next Sunday.

But I have a scheme to communicate. At Washington they are using

photographed labels, like the sample enclosed, the original being written
on the type-writer, and the number being a multiple of the total wanted
Suppose we got, at Council Bluffs, 55 celeripes, 38 cuprascens, 27 lecontes, 
all on sand-bar along the river, 10 splendida, back along an embankment of
clay, and 3 violacea in the woods, on June 2, 1906.  Then we could write
{ 11 labels   C celeripes                 |     8  C. cuprascens  |  6  C lecontes
{                    Council Bluffs, Ioa.             -----------                 ------------
{                    June 2, 1906                           -----------                ------------
{                    F. H Shoemaker.                  -----------                ------------
{
{2                  C splendida           |    1 C violacea     |      25 on sand-bar
{                         ---------                            ---------            X    with scattering
{                         ---------                            ---------                   vegetation near
{                         ---------                            ---------                   Missouri River
{
{2             X  Clay embank-      |  X  1 In woods along   |   and make 5 prints.
{                   ment, +c                                 bluffs, +c
{6                                                                4                                  3
or{1                                                           1                                 13
{1                                                                1                               respectively and make 10 prints.
{
Of course those marked X could be used over and over again for any number
of prints.  Please save this sample and return.

Will write again soon,
Yours, somewhat the worse for wear,
Rbt. H. Wolcott

Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 28, 1906.

Dear Wolcott:

Your letter of January 12 - 18 was duly received, and I hope the run of hard luck
of which ittold has turned down another street.  You certainly had your share of trouble
for a while, and I am anxious to hear that more favorable conditions prevail.

I think you got my letter about labels the same day I received your letter enclosing
the sample of photograph labels.  The scheme is very good for odd locations, but at any
point where more than two or three dozen specimens are taken I should by all means
have the label photo-engraved, for I prefer the print to the typewriting, from an
aesthetic standpoint, by a large majority; in fact, I have always thought that the man
who formulated the typewriter alphabet laid himself out to destroy every shade of
symmetry and grace, and that not only he went for to do it, but that he went and done it,
begobs, and done it so well that he should have a monument placed over him, dead or alive.
Photo-engraving will prove less expensive, also, if time is taken into account.  I am
waiting for your list of locations, and the first or next Sunday after it is received I shall
get your "copy" in order for the reducing process - unless you have fallen in love with
the photo labels, in which case we shall quarrel dreadfully.

Thank you for the information regarding the annual meeting, though some of it
causes me a cramp.  It seems we are destined to act like a pack of kids when we try to
print anything in Nebraska.  First "The Hummer" and then "The Kite" - ye gods, what a
name!  And if our policy in publication be to make the first number "as large as the
funds will allow," I wonder how large the fourth quarterly issue won't be, and what
date it will bear.

All of which has not the slightest bearing upon the fact that on January 28, 1906,
with a temperature of 38 to 45 degrees between 11 and 1 o'clock, I pranced out to the

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claybank next door and from its south face plucked two typical specimens of limbalis
in full possession of their power of flight.  How does that suit you?

With regard to the omissions from the list of members which I left with you, I
thought I explained that this was simply a list of the letters which I sent out, and
as those who had paid were not addressed on the subject, their names were omitted.
This explanation covers Swenk, Tout, Dickinson, Wallace, and Miss Caldwell, whom
you name; Jones, whom you also mention, is on the list, with the information that I
got his little old $2 on December 9, 1905.  As you did not desire the list for an official
purpose, as I understood the matter, I had no hesitancy about leaving it with you, as
I thought it was so nearly complete that it would fill your want.

I'll promise not to bother you again about the Eleodes, only I should like to know
when they are sent, in order that I may know when I go to San Francisco whether Dr. B.
and I are to be friends, or whether I am to be ate.

I return your photo labels, as requested.  Hoping to hear from you soon, to the
effect that Allen and Emily are all right again, I remain

Geoponically,