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W» ChaSi Swett 
705 Hollywood Seeuxlty Bldg, 
Hollywood, California 
Swetts 
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suggested to you. 
a I meitioaed in my letter of November 9, of fclui men wliose naaes 
br. fraser asid 
Tayior. are 
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available, while 
the third, br, Mariter, has had^ eoae assurit=oic©. that, he may be able to get off if 
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It will be possible to tBX& him along. He cannot give a definite axiswer ae 
to Ms availability for about tea days or two #eete. He asks il k'^s Ciui u’ait 
that long before dropping coasideratioa of hi 
le coiitgaplafcec expeoitiori. 
1*1 hi?’'' i' K'l I- I'"*! 
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lou iieiitioried the possibill%- oh haring .room for one or two* I do 
hope you ona teke t w# If ao^ I ohou3.d. line to giire lay first recoooieadnticii , to 
hr a* fhaser ara ^hnter^ with Dr* fajrior aa an alteitiate 
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rioo oe la a po.0-.oiioa to go* - \ 
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Dr. iilaafcer, as I wi-ote you, specialises cn those little — usaally , 
aici-osccpdc — treswitode worms chat live .In the aliaer-taiy tract of fishes, There: 
were £0 .'ESiiiy fish eerngnt last year, by hook end line ana oinerwise, tli&t M,f..nter i 
wo-Liia have been in his gloiy if he 
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md. aeeesn .to. then*" I feel that' with 
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you ana tho Captaia iiohiug as you did laisi yoar^^ you three . would a great s i 
combination for aa¥aiicing our knowledge ox tiia ■ Pacific trexiutoda fa.iixia* Man ter. 
is well acqualatea with the Atlantic foimai and a compardaon of the tr-OTatoces ^ 
from related species of fish from the west siae . of '.Imaxlca sho'ula yield soai-e 
illuminating finds aa- rmmirdB thr 
faunae of those fishes* 
2 ^ao-g 0 oyraphic diatrimtioa . c./ X is: iEtestiuel 
O' 
'O' 
hr* f'raser^' toO'^ has much to gain in being on hand. .tO' see to "th-e collec 
tlon and preseriratioxi of Iiy'drolGS^ a groups by the way^ in which yoUj^ t0C| have 
had some interest* After saying that he coulu secure leave of absence from the 
University, Dr* iraser writes, ^*In the region you mention . there has been little 
hydroid collecting luici as I im Bomewlia.t familiar with rhe liydroid. fauna from 
Florida all around horth Am6.rica to San Diego, such a eolieetion woixlc; extetici the 
range particularly 
l>o i nvi4«da.,a?;°;' sp ready on ahort notlcs if iie ivers to 
oo,.st ti"?Vru pU-trSii! “ 
