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persuaded the curator, Mr. Potter, to give it to me, I
afterward named it Holacanthus potteri.

Upon our arrival at San Francisco, an amusing
incident occurred in the customs office. In one trunk
we had placed all the gifts received in Japan; I found
myself wholly unable to set a valuation on these, as
for the most part I could not remember what they
were nor could I indicate the worth of each. I there-
fore asked the inspector -- Everett, a Stanford man
by the way -- to make his own estimates. Fixing
upon one particular package as a sample, he un-
covered a wooden box about five inches square.
Within this appeared a similar smaller one which in
turn contained a third still smaller, while at the
center rested a tiny black and gold lacquer chest or
casket filled with infinitesimal bonbons, a souvenir
secured by Mr. Huggins at the Empress' garden
party. The customs official, like myself, was puzzled,
and to this day neither of us knows whether his valu-
ation of the whole lot was just or not.

At the San
Francisco
customs

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 406.
    
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