DEPARUISNT CF STATE 
WASHINGTa^ 
December 3 I, 1941 • 
My dear Dr. Viietmore: 
Yfith reference to your raemorandum of December 26, 
1941 , I am pleased to inform you that the Departaient has 
now received a telegram from the American Anabassador at 
Quito to the effect that the Ecuadoran Government has 
given permission for Dr. Waldo L. Sciimitt to visit the 
Galapagos Islands from time to time in connection with 
the laboratory to be constructed there under the program 
of cooperation with the American republics. 
The Ecuadoran Government’s blanket authority has 
loeen given on the understanding that the appropriate 
Ecuadoran authorities will be informed in advance of 
Dr. Schmitt's visits, through the American Ambassador at 
Quito. 
Sincerely yours, 
(Sirned) Paul C. Daniels 
Assistant Chief 
Division of the American Republics. 
Br. Alexander YJetmore, 
Assistant Secretary, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
Washington, D.C. 
