Alim, horbiculturist in obarg© of tb® Balboa '•botaiiio garden", 
illong witb. til© peat, h© gave a© se-^r©i-al rare palo seeds for th® 
Satioaal Hsrbarima. 
Fcr ptokSiai: the soientifio ooll©etioas that I had mad© in 
th® Galapagos Islands Captain Pi#:ij^ offered m© til© very excellent 
faoilities available at Cooo Solo, i^er© I spent May and Srd, 
returning to l^naaa on «3unday, the 4th* As '&# oonnooting plane 
fr<® South Ataerioa was delayed, departure .of th® plane was postponed 
imtil Monday afternoon, the 6th. Leaving at 2 p.ia., we arrived at 
Miami that night at 9 p.a* Her# my Hooseveltis pals seeds were • ftairart 
over 'by the.pl'ant qiaraatia© inspeoiSC TSierefore went down, to the 
MiiEii office the next imming to mke arrangeaents for the shipment 
of these uaii|ue seeds to Washington, ^s matter was very kindly 
taken care of^by a*. Gist, who happened to be the inspector ^lo oame 
to Pensacola in 1946 to pass the plant collections I brought back wi^i 
me from the Presidential Cruise of tiiat year. Mil Merrill asked es- 
pecially tc be reseisbered to you, 
ftnf-iag th© few hours reminlng before departure of the 
Washlngtoa plane at 2 p,m.., I called m Captain Goto W, Mills, of the 
oarnegi® Institution*® Tortuga® laboratory, now retirod, to consult 
with^ him regardii^ available wjtor boats, particularly those on .sale 
by tn© Carnegie Institution, as they have in actual perfoKamce provm 
mincntly suitable for a laboratory sucdi as It is proposed to establish 
in the Galai^goe Islands, . . 
We arrived in lashlngton at StdO' p,m. on Ifcy 6th and I re- 
ported for duty at th® liational Miseum .at 9 o*clock the next morning, 
Hecosaaeadations regarding the proposed labsratory ■and other 
faoilities are being prepared for your attention, as well as a draft 
of the agreeaent covering the cooperative, scientific studies to be 
entered into by tii© United States and Bouador, 
Waldo L, ajhniitt. Curator, 
Division .of Marine Invertebrates, 
