December 9 , I93S 
The Honorable 
The President 
The White House 
Washington, D. C 
Snclosed is a letter that may b© of some interest to you. 
inasmuch as it has some bearing on useful work that might be done off 
the north coast of South America from a scientific point of view. 
Anything in the line of specimens of fish from that stretch 
of coast would materially enhance the contemplated monographic re- 
ports which will of necessity run into several volumes and which will 
be as fundamental to the study of ichthyology in the days to come as 
those early Museum bulletins by Jordan and Svermann on the fishes of 
Forth and Middle America have been in the past. 
the series, whose publication is to be financed by the Sears Foundation 
at Yale, is being planned from that point of view so far as American 
Atlantic waters are concerned. 
with your notes bearing on the desirability of t*yetegi«sk~investi 
gations along the north coast of South America l^lmc / 
These bulletins need revision and bringing up to date, and 
1 h&dd you Dr. Hildebrand^ letter so that you may put it 
Eespeetfully, 
WLSjJAte 
