H. H. BARTLETT 
B. M. DAVIS 
E. B. MAINS 
W. R. TAYLOR 
D. V. BAXTER 
J. H. EHLERS 
W. W. TUPPER 
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
ANN ARBOR 
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 
12th December 1933 
C. D. LA RUE 
F. G. GUSTAFSON 
L. E. WEHMEYER 
C. A. ARNOLD 
K. L. JONES 
W. C. STEERE 
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Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Your letter of tne 11th received toaay: record time. I think 
that I should receive Federal bonus for aid given the Post-office, or at least 
a letter of thanks from Farley. 
I note what yop write regarding hotels. 
I am sorry that Mr. Swett is so ill-acquainted with botanists. 
± am 1 eally quite aquatic, or at worst amphioian. Please re-assure nim. I plan 
to collect marine algae as long as tney can be haa. If they fail to be profitabie 
or accessiole, I will collect anything: fresh-water algae, bryophyta, grass x^'usts, 
fex^ns, or anything else I can get. My o\m interests are emphatically marine, 
as you very well know, and it is to serve that particular type of research that I 
go with you. But I always like to pick up curious things when I run on them, 
ihere c^re four Professors of Botany here, ail wdth highly segregated interests. 
I am sux’e that dried land plants should cause no trouble on 
entry, for I have brought them in many times, and stuff comes to us many times a 
year v;ithout trouble. I do not plan to bring living plants of any kind, but nave 
instructions covering that unlikely eventuality. 
I understand your post-script on pnotographics. 
in accord with my inclinations. 
It is quite 
I have had a medical examination ana typhoid immunization; I 
will try to get a copy of the urinalysis report to bring along. Tomorrow I will 
see if I can get a blood type test, but wish I had known earlier wnen not so rusnea. 
The hospital is huge, and slow to percolate through. 
I sent my dunnage over to be boxed toaay; expect to oversee tne 
packing toraorrow. I will bring only one little navy trunk of clothes outsiae of 
rough collecting clothes, and hand-baggage. I expect it to be expressed before 
the end of the week; you may care to notify Mr. Swett. 
I think I understand xne attire planned; I can re-iniorce any 
short items at San Pedro under your advice. 
I do not anticipate any heavy radio corx*esponaence; I doubt if 
I use it except for emergencies, but will arrange an / official and a family ad- 
dress. 
I definitely plan to leave here on tne i9th, stop a few hours 
in Ghigago and take the night train out for the West. I plan to leave San Francisco 
/p/ Berkeley on the 24th, stay a couple of days at Stanford, a couple at Pacific 
Grove, then early on the 29th (or at night on the 28th) sta.rt down to Los Angeles. 
At Berkeley I v/ill be in touch wdth Setcheii, Gardner or Goodspeed in Botany, as 
I find them about, and Sumner Brooks in Zoology. At Stanford I will be witn 
Laurence Blinks or Gilbexd Smith in Botany, or G.V. Taylor in Zoology. You could 
get messages to me through them. 
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Cordially, 
