May 9, 1939 
Dr. A. Wetmore 
Assiatant Secretary 
U. S. National Maseua 
Dear Dr. Wetmore; 
In adcordance with yotir letters of inetruction and authori- 
sation of Fehruary ijth' , I left Washington- for Cambridge, Massachu- 
setts, on March loth, at 9*00 P«®» My visit there was highly success- 
ful. Hot only did. I obtain the long wanted specimens that Dr. Charles 
H. Blake had had for over seven years, hut I also discovered a large 
collection of Philif^ine stomatopods on the shelves at theM.I.T. that 
had been sent to Dr. H. P. Bigelow (retired) by the Bureau of Fisheries. 
I T/ent to see Dr. Bigelow and had a most pleasant visit. He turned 
over to me a manuscript on the genus Sarullla that he had already com- 
pleted. He expressed the hope that we might be able to put it in 
shape for publication as a JIuseum paper. I shall go over this at the 
first opportunity. 
I also had a most profitable time at the M.C.Z, going over 
Miss Deichmaim’s manuscript notes on the alcyonarlans of the Presi- 
dential Cruise, and I had quite a session on crustaeea with IJr. Fenner 
Chace. I visited Dr. H. L. Clark; and Dr. John H. Welsh, tdio has 
been collaborating with Dr. Chace in various studies on the eUes of 
deep-sea decapods. 
In Hew York, March 19-20, after calling on the consuls of 
the several countries that we planned to visit, I went out to the 
American Ibiseum of Natural History and delivered to Dr. Llbbie Hyman 
a nxxmber of mounted slides of flat worms needed in connection with 
studies she is making -on the Atlantic coast forms. Before sailing 
on the 21st, I attended to some necessary last minute purchases. 
The CRISTOBAL left New York on Tuesday, March Plst, at h p.m. 
A stop for the better part of Sunday, March 26th, was mad© at Port-au- 
Prince, Haiti. The trip was uneventful, the weather beautiful through- 
out. 
