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AIR MAIL May 10, 1956 
Dr. F. G. Walton Smith 
The Marine Laboratory 
University of Miami 
Ii39 Anastasia Ave. 
Coral Gables, Fla. 
Dear Waltons Appslch 
Herewith a statement from each of us, — Ted Bayer, Leonard Schultz 
and myself. I hope they are what is necessary to clinch Randall’s 
appointment. According to Schultz, you certainly are not making a 
mistake. I go along with that. 
West Indian trip was quite successful, and certainly most 
enjoyable. We got out to Barbuda, where there is quite a spiny 
lobster fishery for local consumption. They stack up piles of brush 
in fairly shallow water in which the adolescent lobsters take refuge. 
Then, by surrounding it with a net, they throw out the brush on to 
another pile just outside the net. This is then left for another 
two or three weeks, when it is repopulated and another catch obtained. 
I hope the pictures that I took of the operations turned out well. 
The light was ppor due to a rain squall that came up at the time. 
I think you are doing wonders with the Foundation and your 
Caribbean institute. I did not get to sign the proxy that you need. 
I just found it on my return a few days ago. 
% best to the family and to yourself also. 
Sincerely, 
WL-Sehraitt seek 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
