GOUCHER COLLEGE 
Baltimore, Maryland 
January 23, 1^24 
Mr. Waldo L. Schssitt, 
TJ.3. National Museun, 
Washington, D.C, 
liJy dear Mr. Schmitt: 
It gilres me great pleasure to know that you are in- 
clined to avail yourself of whatever opportunity the Carnegie 
Institution may be able to afxord jrou for working on Tortugas 
Decapoda next summer.. 
In regard to the natter of expense I can say only 
that the Institution has in the past been accustomed to bear 
the expense of transportation, at least up to the amount of a 
round trip from Mew York to Mey West by Mallory line f-f86.4C), 
and practically the entire expense of Baintenance during the 
approved investigator's stay. It is to be asstimed, I think, 
that this practice ?/ill be continued, in which case you would 
draw upon your private account for very little. 
As matters stand, you^better write to President Mer- 
riam, saying that your attention has been called to the an- 
nouncement in Science to which I referred you, and stating 
your desire to spend a month or six weeks studying and collect- 
ing Tortugas Decapoda with the idea of working them up systemat 
ically and ecologically. 
The word to the effect that your attention was called 
to the Carnegie announcement will be enough to make it cleaFT" 
I think, ( in view of other facts known to the Institution) 
that I am the guilty party, without emphasizing the fact over- 
much. 
Whether you are to have Collaborators or not, is not 
a matter that requires to be specified at present. But if 
you may have your leave at practically any time ;rou desire it, 
that should be mentioned for the benefit of all concerned, 
since it will perm.it the schedule of investigators to be fixed 
most aptly. It is also worth mentioning that your research 
will re^iuire practically no apparatus, which the laboratory 
does not doubtless already possess. 
