SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
October 3, 193S. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Curator, Division of Marine Investebrates 
L T at i onal Mus eum : 
Dear Dr. Schmitt 
if ill you be so kind as to ascertain 
whether the President would be willing to permit 
me to n am e for him one of the remarkable new 
echinoderms collected by yourself while on the 
Houston . 
I do not feel myself at liberty to do 
this without his express permission. 
Abundant precedent for this course is 
found in the numerous animals named for President 
Theodore Roosevelt and, earlier, for President 
Thomas Jefferson. 
The report on the echinoderms, including 
descriptions of three new species, will be ready 
in two' or three days. I am sending a few speci ens 
to my colleague Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark of the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard for com- 
parison with others in that institution. When 
these are returned they will be photographed, and 
the manuscript will then be submitted for -oublica- 
t ion. 
Sincerely yours 
Curator, Division of Echinod 
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