John M. Woram 
45 Lakeside Drive 
Rockville Centre, NY 1 1570 
(516) 764-8900 
July 27, 1989 
Mr. William Cox 
Assistant Archivist 
Smithsonian Institution Archives 
Washington, DC 20560 
M 0 I 8 
Dear Bill: 
Thanks very much for sending me the photocopies of the Schmitt and 
Wetmore papers. There was much valuable information in them for my 
forthcoming article for Noticias de Galapagos. 
Before working on Dr. Schmitt’s handwritten diary, I typed it out for 
easier reading. I’m enclosing a copy in case it’s of any use to you. In a few 
cases, I inserted a word, remark or question mark, each of which is in 
brackets. There are also a few dashes and one asterisk. For example 
a word] inserted for clarity 
an educated guess as to the content at this point 
comment] usually, to indicate that a sentence had been crossed out, or 
that the text continues on the previous page, 
passage is illegible 
(on page 91) The entry is mis-dated, which accounts for the 
apparent absence of a June 26th entry. 
I retained all of Dr. Schmitt’s spelling variations of names (Russel & 
Russell, for example) unless I was certain of the correct spelling. There’s 
also a cross-reference at the end to other boxes and folders, as listed in your 
Guide to the P apers of Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. In the case of the names of 
some of the people listed in the diary, I don’t know what’s in these boxes, so 
it may or may not be related to the diary. Perhaps I can have a look at these 
whenever I can manage to make another trip to Washington. I hope I can 
do this within the next few months, since I’d like to look at the slides in box 
124 to see if Dr. Schmitt photographed any iguanas while on this brief visit. 
For whatever it’s worth, apparently he didn’t actually see the iguanas 
that were supposed to have been shot by the Army - his diary entry about 
this is on page 64, which was written 10 days before he arrived in Galapagos. 
So it must have been an incident that was reported to him while he was still 
in the Canal Zone. 
Anyway, thanks again for all your help. I’ll send you a copy of my article 
as soon as its finished. But with luck. I’ll be able to get back to the Archives 
before it’s done to have a look at those slides. They may add something to 
John M. Woram 
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PS - if you can fill in any of the dashed lines, let me know and I’ll re-type 
the page. 
