And now there were some wonderful conflicts, this not necessarily to be recorded between Bridges and Beebe and I didn’t know why. just so you know. And it took me months to discover why. It was about commas. (William laughs) Beebe liked and used a fair number of commas, Bridges as an editor removed them. Beebe was such an extraordinarily successful writer that he did not accept this sort of editorship and they’d gotten to the part where they hardly spoke. Finally, Beebe went to Fairfield Osborn, the president of the society, we would call him the chairman these days ’cause the title has changed, but in any case, went to Fairfield Osborn to settle the matter. So you can see this was quite, I found it quite amusing and I was still thinking it amusing, but they didn’t.
