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fke card from feniee is appreciated. Hope you folks had as good 
a time as the very beautiful picture seems to indicate. Ill bet you 
feel relieved that you did not book passage on the DORIA. I m gl&d 
too. As a Coast Guard man is reported to have said,— "The big fellow 
mas trying to bluff the little fellow out— it's done all the time on 
the tr ans -Atlantic passenger run. R — 
Within the next day or two you should be receiving the grass mat 
we picked up in Xbminica for you. It is quite a nice-looking thing, 
with smell of new-mown. hay. It is a little rough on bare feet. How 
do I know ? I picked up a couple of small ones about 3 feet long which 
we have alongside the beds. On the FBEELASCE they felt smoother— 
perhaps more worn down. 
The balances remaining in your two funds ares African, lh,579.63: 
^est Indian, $1,273.22, As I mentioned in earlier letters , I would 
like to earmark feo to three hundred dollars in the former for a 
couple of strips of film yet to be taken here in the Museum— of the 
Ward African (Congo) sculptures as introductory matter , the tip of 
the Washington monument to tie in with Egypt, and some of the speci- 
mens we brought back to tie in the scientific results with the Museum. 
I soon hope to wind these things up with the National Geographic 
Society, a set of the kodachromes that the several of us took on 
the West Indian cruise will be gotten together right after the first 
of September. A1 Smith has some very good ones of the dip net collec- 
tions, but will be showing them at Storrs , Connecticut at a botanical 
society meeting. It has been a bit difficult to get the various 
slides together for making up a set. Some will need to be duplicated 
which mil entail a nominal charge against the balance remaining in 
the Caribbean expeditionary fund. The $579 and $273 I would like to 
leave on hand lor completing the films and slides of the two expedi- 
tions, but these will probably use only a fraction of those sums. 
In any case you can count on a full #5,000 from the tiro funds as 
being available for whatever other expedition you may wishto devo e 
them. 
Cosing back to the plans for the Society Islands, Z am now 
asking the State Department if they have any official or s ami- 
official contact© in the area who might put us in touch with 
possible charter opportunities. We shall see, and I shall write 
you when we do. 
Regards to you all both great and small. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
. , , Department of Zoology 
