SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 15, 1933. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schiiltt, 
c/o San Diego Zoo, 
San Diego, California. 
Please deliver on board 
Velero III on arrival ♦ 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I have received your letter of March 4 from Panama and 
naturally I am delighted at the success that you announce in connection 
with your work. It is pleasant indeed to know that Captain Hancock 
has shown such a friendly attitude toward your investigations, and I 
'//ill ask that you give him my personal thanks for his attention. 
I am sending you herewith' additional authorization to 
permit you to attend to the necessary shipment of your collections and 
consultation with the staff of the University of Southern California 
which you indicate is necessary. Also pemission to return East by 
way of San Francisco and Berkeley to examine collections in those places. 
In your official travel you will need to use transportation requests for 
all tickets where the sum is in excess of fl.OO, If you make cash 
expenditures for tickets for large sums these cannot be reimbursed to 
you. I am informed by Miss Lees that you have a book of ten transportation 
requests in your possession which I assume will be sufficient for your 
needs* I will also ask that you send her the copy of transportation 
request S.I. 1484 issued on the Grace Line so that she can straighten 
up her accounts. You will be allo?/ed the usual per dieBi of $5.00 and 
such other miscellaneous expenses as may be required. 
We have had no statement from you as to the expenses 
incurred in going to Panama. When you receive this letter please send 
me a night letter announcing your arrival, indicating after careful 
estimate whether or not the original allotment of $350.00 from the 
National fluseum will cover your additional expenses in connection with 
the work indicated above. Please remember in doing this that these 
expenditures have nothing to do with the small allotment that I made to 
