Punta Arenas, Chile, 
November 11, 1927. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
u-urator of Marine Invertebrates, 
S.I.U.S. National Museum, 
Washington D. C, 
My dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I want to thank you for your letter of 
September 16th and for remem.be ring about my 
"chesterfields” which should arrive in due 
course - it is earnestly hoped their fate will 
not be that of your mail. Have settled v/ith 
the Libreria ”Ei Giobo” for you and await your 
instructions re disposition of chest of bottles 
(empty ones, are they?). 
The v/inter was very mild consequently the 
sheep are thriving and the lambing this Spring 
is reported to have been unusually prolific in 
spite of the beafefely gales. Have not stirred 
^rom the city since we arrived but am looking 
forward to a few excursions during shearing 
season. 
The first and last letter received from. 
Stevenson, dated in July, stated he had resigned 
from the Consular Service to go to Havana for 
the Dep't of Commerce. 
The British passenger steamer Orita which 
recently passed through here encountered many 
icebergs on its way from Montevideo to Port 
Stanley as far north as 41 S. latituted. One 
of the British v/halers is reported as having 
been v/recked and lost in the ice flov/s farther 
south. 
