November 10, 1941 
Ur# Roger W* Harriann 
Pish and Wildlife Service 
Teclmo logical Laboratory 
2725 Mont lake Boulevard 
Beattie, Washington 
Dear Roger » 
That 1 s what I always liked about you— your keen, incisive 
way of dealing with practical matters; 
The division of the results of the crab investigation into 
two reports, as you have outlined it to me and to Mr. Fiedler in your 
letter of November Oth to the Director of the Fish and Wildlife 
Service, hits the nail square on the head. The fishing interests and 
the fishermen don’t care a rap for the biological data which, after 
all, is the most important thing from our more biological point of 
view. They want seme early practical information at hand and that is 
what you are going to give them. It is nice, too, for Carlson and 
Christy to get the ohanoe to put their commercially useful informa- 
tion where it will do most good with the least waste of time. 
Going a step farther, I do not know that the biological 
report should be all one report because Marvin Wallace’s information 
should be next in order. The miscellaneous collections, as they 
are worked up, though valuable, will be of lesser interest and can 
follow as they are made ready for publication. 
What little I had to do with the Alaska Crab Investigation 
was a great treat to me and I still have a great hankering to go to 
Alaska again. It is a country of great potentiality and I know you 
folks realize that better than I do* 
Best ever to you all. 
Sincerely, 
WLS : LMo 
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates 
