VVILUIAM Ji. AMOS 
NOXONTOV/N ROAD 
MIDDLETOWN. DELAWARE 
September 15, 1959 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Many thanks for your letters; I am 
sorry not to have answered them sooner, but am 
only just settling down after a series of trips 
to conferences and meetings. 
You can rest assured the films will 
be sent on as soon as I finish the cataloging. 
This summer was busier and more demanding than 
I had anticipated and I am behind on the films, 
as on a number of other matters. As soon as I 
get my department underway here, I'll return to 
the pictures and get them finished. 
By way of appreciation for being on 
the trip, Carl and 1 are running a small account 
in the Estuarine Bulletin with a few illustrations. 
Either he or I will send you as many copies as you 
may wish, although I fear you won't find much of 
interest since it is necessarily brief and not as 
extended as the one he wrote. 
I hope to be in Washington before the 
end of the month and will try to stop in to say 
hello. Incidentally, the crate of bottles arrived 
safely the other day, and I'm about to tie in some 
of these specimens with their photographs. In 
several instances I do not have full names and will 
have to depend upon you for identifications, but 
this can be done when I bring the films down. 
I hope that Tom is back in good shape 
by now; please give him my best. Also my regards 
to Mrs. Schmitt and the men at the museum. 
Cordially, 
