August 19, 193 S 
Dr. A. Wetmore 
Assistant Secretary 
U. S. National Museum 
Dear Dr, Wetmore: 
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In accordance with your letters of instruction and authoriza- 
tion of July 7th, I left Washington at 5? ^5 P»»* July 10th for Los 
Angeles, fhe opportunity of securing some additions! color film at 
government rate at the Chicago branch of the Eastman Kodak Company was 
made use of during a four-hour lay-over in Chicago. 
The Santa Fa Chief, on which I travelled, reached Los Angeles 
at 11:57 on July 13 th. Here I visited the zoological laboratories of 
the University of Southern California, where 1 went over the more recent 
Hancock Sxpedtion material and consulted with Dr. Irene McCulloch, who 
is in charge of those collections, aid with Dr. Olga Hartman, who last 
winter worked over a portion of our worm collections here at the Museum 
and who is now busily engaged in studying the Hancock collection of 
annelids. 
On the forenoon of July lUth, I was with Captain Hancock, 
going over plans for furthering ttudies on the collections already 
amassed by his and other plans contemplating the enhancement of those 
collections by future expeditions. 
I also spent some time with Mr. Steve 01 as sell, who is at 
present engaged in reporting on both the National Museum and Hancock 
Pacific Porcellanids, along with representatives of the same group from 
Atlantic waters, chiefly in the region of Florida. 
Captain Hancock* s yacht, the lelero III, was also visited. 
Here I pi deed up a few pieces of collecting equipment which I had left 
behind on an earlier occasion. 
Arriving in San Diego in the late forenoon of July 15 th, I 
straightway made such purchases of collecting equipment as could not 
readily and economically be transported from Washington: tubs, buckets, 
harpoon and dip net handles and poles. 
