AIR LETTm 
February 28, 1956 
Mr. William B. Cobb, Jr, 
American Consul 
American Consulate 
mrtinique, F. W. I. 
Dear Mr. Cobbs 
Tour letter of Februaiy 17 is most welcome, I don’t 
Icnow Just when we will get to Ifertinique, Hos-^everitm are 
departing from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on the 13th, and hope 
to spend a few days in the Grenadines enroute, 
I haye most pleasant recollections of Bfertinique which 
I visited once before in 1937, on the Joseph Conrad, We 
shall be very happy to meet with you and the biologically- 
interested frisMs of whom you speak. However, I do not 
know if there is a single on® of us that speaks French, 
though all of us can read a bit, 
I shall try to keep you posted as to our movements. 
Perhaps you are in touch with Capt, Nicholson from time to 
time by radio telephone. 
Thank you again for your friendly letter. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Dei^rtment of Zoolo^ 
WM?e®k 
