SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Januaiy 4, 1954 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
The letter I Virrote you on December 29 has already gone to Panama. 
I don’t understand from your letters 7/hetlier you will touch first at Panama 
or Guayaquil, and whether you ?dll stop at Panama more than once or not. At 
8ny rate the carbon of this letter will go to Guayaquil and the original to 
Fanama, so if you have to read it twice, that’s your hard luck* 
With the original of this letter (to Panama) I enclose the last 
letter you wrote to John before you left, and am I embarrassed I As you see, 
I addressed it to San Diego instead of Long Beach, and it came back the other 
day. It had good air mail stamps on it, too, which went to waste. Fortunately, 
the letter was just a stop— gap and didn’t really say anything of importance. 
Mr. Chace came back yesterday. He said it had been 8^ below in 
Boston, and for one whole day the temperature didn’t hven come up to zero. The 
maps whicn you had requested from Balss came a few day^ and he sent a most 
generous supply of each kind. Mr. Chace was very much pleased with them, and 
I acknowledged them to Balss. 
On Tuesday of this week, our friend Andrew brought back Mr. Kelly’s 
gloves, just one week after he had calmly appropriated them. Our micro scopist 
will be here ready for work some time today or else tomorrov/. I told Mr. 
Shoemaker yesterday that he must tell Andrew that he would have to work else- 
where, as we would need the space for the micro scopist. Mr. Shoemaker said he 
aid, but he is staying home today again, and I see that Andrew is comfortably 
ensconced at Mr. Shoemaker’s desk this morningl The boy has more crust! I yvHI 
be very glad when we do get him out of here. It isn’t enough for him to stay 
out there and do his own work; he comes in here and watches over my shoulder 
wMle I’m writing letters or doing other work, and Yrhen I’m talking to people, 
either officially or otherwise, he stands around listening and offers a wise 
remark here and there. About the next time he does it, he’s going to get a 
good dressing down from me. 
Professor Hathaway from Tulane University was here day before yester- 
day and worked around at Miss Rathbun’s table all afternoon on vsome Crustacea 
he bronight with him. He left that evening. You remember you had some correspond- 
ence with iiim over Burkenroad. 
?/e were given notice yesterday that the Civil Works people would 
work 39 hours a week hereafter, starting today. They are to be paid at a weekly 
