Dr* Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, 
was awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholarship for the purpose of 
making a stucfy of the crustacean fauna of South America* He hoped to 
spend the last six months of this year investigating the fauna of the 
east coast of the continent, and left Hew York Aixgust 1, arriving at 
Rio de Janeiro on the 13th, where he was accorded every courtesy, both 
by the Brazilian officials and the itoerican Ambassador* l&ich collecting 
was done in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, and valuable material obtained 
at Paqueta Island*^ A harbor tue was generously placed .at the. disposal 
of Dr* Schmitt by the Brazilian authorities for trawling purposes, but 
the hauls made in deep vfater yielded nothing but mud or sand, and the 
boat being too large for shallow water work, this method of collecting 
was abandoned* 
Dr. Sclimitt visited the Museu Kacional, examined the 
collections, and received much valuable irJ’ormation from Dr. Carlos 
Moreira, the Brazilian carcinologist, who was for a long time attached 
to the Muse\.im, in regard to the local marine fauna and the best collecting 
grounds . ^ 
Heavy rains and unavoidable delays prolonged his sojourn at 
Rio de Janeiro until September 7, when he left for Santos, arriving there 
the following day. The near-by Museu Paulist'o at Sao Paulo was visited 
and here he met Dr. h. Ludervfaldt, Custodian, who for many years has been 
a correspondent of the U. S. National Museum. The collections of the 
Museum were examined and greatly admired by Dr. Schmitt> who writ e s th at 
"They are the best kept I have ever seen and v.'ell arranged." } Dr. Sclmiitt 
was very much gratified at receiving from the Museu Paulista permission to 
Work up ibs collscbion of uuidcnbificd crusbeiCGS., and for bhG privilcgG of 
