Miss Hathljun has not been back for a week. Mr. Shoemaker called on 
her night before last and said she seemed well, bat did not say 
anything about coming back. She said something about being "so glad 
that Jane could now have her desk." 
April 20, 1939 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I could probably have saved the government money, if I had 
saved up all these Panama letters and mailed them in one envelope] 
Enclosed is a copy of a letter from Mr. Clausen, of the 
6th Pacific Science Congress inviting you to be a speaker. I wrote 
him, explaining that you were away and telling him that I was for- 
warding your letter to him. Do you think you can go? Would the 
Musexim pay your way? It would be awfully nice for you to go, I think, 
if you could wangle the money out of some one. 
You’ll be interested in the enclosed clipping. There was 
also a note about it in the Sunday paper. I read only the headlines 
that day and though the woman’s name was li^aguely familiar to me, I 
didn’t place it until Monday when Mr. Bryant asked me if I had seen 
it. He said Mrs. Schmitt and Mrs. Bryant were much excited by it. 
I said to Mr. Bryant, "Why, Hunt just sent that bracelet down here 
for appraisal at Christmas time." Mr. Bryant replied, "Did Hunt say 
that it was for his wife? " 
Mr. Kelly has just discovered that he has a double hernia. 
He blames it on lifting heavy things around here, and is seeking 
to have the operation through the Public Health Service. I think he 
will succeed. The trouble just developed in the last month. He said 
he noticed a little pain the day he packed up your outfit, but thought 
nothing of it. Then there was a swelling in his groin, which he still 
thought nothing about until it grew larger all the time. He finally 
went to his doctor a few days ago, who diagnosed it as hernia. He 
then went over to Public Health, where they examined him and told him 
it was a double hernia. Apparently it is not yet very bad, and can 
be corrected. 
There is nothing more to tell you. Mr. Maloney’s eye is 
still giving him a great deal of trouble and he cannot use the micro- 
scope . I called Jane's family Monday and they said she was doing as 
well as could be just after the operation. We are certainly a bunch 
of cripples down here. I even skinned my kneeJ 
The Ciustacea section of the Zool, Record just came in this 
morning. It is fairly fat, and I guess I will be busy carding the 
entries for the rest of the time you are gone. I am almost through 
recopying your paper on the Presidential trip (that is, the original 
one with the diary entries). I got the volume of Memoirs of the Soc. 
Bi ogBographi e back from the library, thinking I would soon be able to 
translate some more of those articles, and have Seen fighting with 
Angelo over the French dictionary. I finally told him to leave it 
^®’^® ^® iieeds to consult it. He doesn’t seem 
^o "®®® nearly so often I 
Sincerely, 
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