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The cruise terminated at Pensacola shortly after noon on 
August 9th. It was impossible to complete shipping arrangement s for 
my outfit and collections in time to make a train that evening. The 
dry icing of the fish caused the greatest difficulty. Mr. H. Bear, of 
the Pensacola Dairy Go., kindly parted with a portion of his own limited 
supply of dry ice to sake possible the successful shipping of the frozen 
fish, birds, and iguanas. 
I was able to get away at 1:30 p.ra. August 10th. Dry ice was 
again added to the box of frozen specimens at midnight In Atlanta, under 
my personal supervision. We reached Washington at 7*25 the same evening. 
Before going home, I made sure that the box of frozen specimens was on 
its way to the freezer of the Terminal Refrigerating and Warehousing 
Corporation, a fact which I checked by phone after I readied home. The 
next morning at nine o’clock, August 12th, I reported for duty at the 
Museum . 
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Respectfully, 
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? LS:LMc 
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates. 
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