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AIR MAIL 
September 17, 1956 
Mr. miliaiB T. Miller 
Christiansted 
St. Croix, 7irgin Islands 
Dear “Fish" Miller i 
Sorry that I did not hare your post office box or 
a more exact address, but I am hoping that this communi- 
cation will reach you in time. Do you remember that 
deep-water fish that you let me take along? It has been 
identified by our Dr. Ernest A. Lachner, associate 
curator of the Division of Fishes , as Polymixia lowel 
Qflnther. He says: 
’’These berycoid fishes have never been 
reported as 'common' off the Atlantic coast. 
The species was originally described by Poey, 
I am told, but the name is credited to OBntter, 
as you will have seen. Following Poey a single 
specimen was taken in 1933, and until J^33, 
when a Harvard expedition did some deep-water 
trawling in the Greater ihitilles, gottd^ l50 
specimens, were the only two of which we knew, 
lour specimen is our largest representative of 
the species^^*^ owiT 
Thank you. 
Sincerely, 
Wal^ L. Schmitt 
Heia Curator 
Department of Zoology 
sstra^s" 
