December IB, 1B5S 
Mr* W. Ch&s* Swett 
Hollywood Security Building 
Hollywood, California 
dear lax 
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I thank you for .all that you are doing to facilitate the 
scientific work, this year, and especially for that ver/ coraplete letter 
of yours of December 11. 
I simll Staid in the note to. Science i.a tiiae foi' publication 
la its December 29th nuEiber. It has always been ay feeling that all 
publicity shoulc: coae from you and I m. .glad tb-at I have Kept it" so, in 
view of ffhat you eay, I shall be glaa to see copies of whatever you 
issue, and shall also be glad toisnaer what asaistance I can in that 
comeetiou. I doubt whether it will be nccessaiy every time to consult 
the otiiei' fiiembers of the scientific pOi’ty by letoer or not. 
In this cocuioctiott, I wo-ald like to eay that it ia not &t al.1 
necessary that you lU&ac any acuiio'#ledgi.rient to the institutiaas .fros 
which any of these men cose, fou can rest assured that thoa institutions 
and their ada ini stra tors are only too glad to iiavc an opportunity to per- 
mit one of their represeatatives to accospsiny your expedition. The 
obligations are all on the side of the several institutions, and I Know 
that /they are just as hopeful ana hapity as Dr, Wetsaore was when he peu'- 
ait^ed me to accept your invitation. In eases of tids sort, letters of 
ap|)f6‘Clatioa from tiiea to you and Captain .Hancock aj-e in order, rather 
thah any acknowledgment from you <h'£ the XJCKiiission they have granted to 
chose men to scooapfmy you, 
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j I do not wish to sees the least bit forsara in this matter, but 
If you are agreeable to letting these visiting scientists work through 
he with you, I do feel that we may be able to reader you better service 
and cooperation and that your several scientific projects rail be the 
better coordinated. By this, I mean ia .a generfil way. They were picked 
more or less because their wox'k was most suppleitient&i’y’ and comiJlenentury 
to tile benefits tiiat I would derive froia dredging and to wh.at the siiip 
would be doing In the course of the present expedition. As last year, no 
aoubt you will want \XB t>0 OViiiT iAfib tters fi'oa tirae to time regarding 
each aay*a work so that & tyxiewritten stuteuent may be handed to you the 
