THE SCRIPPS INSTITUTION FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 
OF THE 
located AT LA JOLLA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
NEAR 1 
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 
Berkeley, 
tAdotcay California, 
April 24,1914. 
bear Schmitt : 
Thank you for your letter and inclosed data. I have 
had in mind writing to you for some days. I re tur ne d home last 
Saturday ( the 18th. ) laden with plunder. That is, I brought about 
100 living mice of the kind that I particularly went for .together 
with some 30 skins. Also sent Grinnell a lot of specimens of va- 
rious species .living and dead. 
I have worked your data ( temperature , salinity and the re- 
cord of the bottom-sample trip) into the report . Turned over the 
galleys to Flinn to-day. I am glad to know of the success of 
the sampler in deep water .but I hear from a reliable witness that 
you were "as sick as a dog"! Bid you know that the salinity for 
the surface water was only about l/3 that at the same stations 
in February ,1912? For the bottom it was about 4/5. The tempera- 
ture, on the other hand .differed by only ■§• degree. 
By the way, we must decide as to the number of reprints that 
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we want. Ordinarily , an author is given 200. Allen says that .as 
there are four authors here concerned , we can probably have a lar- 
ger number (perhaps 300, or even more). A large part of the zoolo- 
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gists that we shall want to reach are doubtless oiE the regular 
mailing list of the University .and there will be no need of dup- 
licating. On the other hand, the geologists will not be reached. 
For this reason, I am disposed to allow louderback a larger nmn- 
a £- 
ber than I oersonally receive. He will need these for each person 
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