SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
January 24, 1955 
Dear Dr. Schmitt; 
I have your letters mailed from Cristobal and Balboa. Miss 
Munroe let me have another copy of the Explorations pamphlet for 
1950 which contains Dr. Eassler's paper on Dr. Cusliman's laboratory. 
I am sending it to you, along with Dr. Cushman's photographs, which 
Dr. Wetmore returned several days ago. In returning them, he v/rote, 
"I have examined with interest the photograph of Dr. Cushman's 
laboratories at Sharon, Massachusetts sent to me with your memorandum 
of January’- 5. They give very good indication of the conditions under 
which the Cushman collection of Foraminifera is maintained." Vvildly 
enthusiastic comment, isn't it? 
Mrs. Schmitt brought down the first installment of your diary 
a few days ago and I have typed it. Miss Rathbun and Mr. ShoemaJcer are 
reading it now. Mr. Bryant said he was coming in for it, but he has 
not done so yet. You certainly had one of a time getting off, 
didn't you? I hope that all your troubles are ended now and that you 
will have a wonderful tiioe from now on. 
Mr. Richards wrote me from Cuba. He said he was sorry not 
to see you, but that he was in the field collecting the day you were 
to arrive in Havana. He didn't know about your changing ships and all 
that. He evidently didn't stop here on his way home; at least, I 
didn't see him. He wrote that he was having gratifying success and 
among other things had collected what he was sure vras a new species 
of Cerion . That will bum up the man upstairs. 
Mr. ShoemaXer recovered from the flu and returned the next 
week after you left. The rest of us managed not to get it. Miss 
Rathbim had a bad cold for several days, but she stuck it out and seems 
to be over it now. Mr. Maloney stayed away several days last week and 
moved. He moved into a one-room apartment at 1435 R St., N.W. He and 
the people with whom he was sharing the hopse out on Veazey St. couldn't 
get along. They let the house go back to the real estate company and 
lost all they had put in it. Mr. Maloney had paid |1000 down, and I 
suppose has been making monthly payments since. A rattle-brained 
performance, anyway — to buy a house in conjiinction with some one else. 
Vi’hen I came to have to consult the Tortugas chart, I could no 
more figure those distances than I could fly. I had completely forgotten 
