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BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Berkeley, Calif., August 25* 1913 
Dr. Hugh It. Smith, 
Commissioner of Fisheries 
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ashington, D.O 
Dear Sir 
Dr. Sumner has told me that 
he has handed in his resignation to the Bureau. Should this 
he favorably acted upon, and should the Bureau, in due time, 
take up the matter of filling the consequent vacancy, I 
should like to he considered as an applicant for the posit icn 
•Att Aw iMM* 
I have he on with the ship for the greater part of the 
last two and a half years. During that time I have taken 
part in the Lower California Cruise and have personally 
participated in the first two trials made on the last halibut 
survey. I have spent three months in Alaska during the 
salmon rmyat Chignik, in the summer of 1911, and since that 
time have been with the present Survey of Ban Francisco B 
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d, of course, have taken an active part in it 
1 hold the degree of B.3. from the George Lashington 
University, xu 
major subject was zoology 
Though I do not wish to seem forward, I do feel that with 
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my tr^jlng .and experience on the ship, I am capable of efficient- 
ly fi! n :h.'g, rack a poEt/LL M ’ .1 cf Hat v.ralist on the 
Albatross. 
Hoping that you will pardon the "formal -personal” 
