October g* I 93 S 
Mr. Joe BalicM , 
let Div. tJ. S. S. Houston, 
Lonx Beach, California. 
Dear Bali old s 
I answer jour letter right sway so that you know it landed. 
1 will get after those prints of that Ho. Si photograph without delay, 
hut we usually have to wait for some time on our museum photographer 
who is short-handed and has Mack work to do. 
I will get the prints to you as soon as I can. There will be 
no charge attached to than. It is a small return for all the help 
you gave no on the cruise. had a grand, time, didn’t wef If I get 
another chance at. another trip of the same kind, we* 11 pick up another 
palm or two. The one that we got on Cocos has attracted d lot of at- 
tention at the Deportment of Agriculture, and they are * retry Keen to get 
another specimen of palms from other out of the way islands. 
1*11 be writing you soon again, 
of the. gang." 
ttf best to you and the 
Waldo 1. Schmitt, Curator 
Division of Marine Invertebrates 
