Ootober 30, 1941 
Mr. Roger W. Harrison 
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
2725 Xlontlake Boulevard 
Seattle, Washing ton 
Dear Roger* 
I an in a considerable rush for various reasons and, worse 
than that, rather torn up here at the offioa because of moving. At 
the moment I owuiot put my hand on your letter transmitting Wallace's 
Pacific Fisheries report# 
It is an interesting paper, but when I go over it there are 
some things in it that raight well have been built on data that you 
have gotten together. This is said in no sense as a criticism of 
Wallace, because he undoubtedly discovered the same thing, but I men- 
tion it because of the considerable overlap of his findings and those 
that you will have in the fisheries report. For that reason X would 
suggest that his report be not published as it stands and that where 
the data from the two investigations run parallel they be incorpor- 
ated in the Alaska King Crab Investigations report. Reference to the 
source of the information, either by dates or otherwise, would give 
credit where due. 
I am sorry that Marvin did not get his report out long ago. 
It would not be the best thing at this time to publish two separate re 
ports, because both of us had incomplete data, and one combined report 
is better than two unavoidably incomplete ones. 
, The best thing for Wallace to do in ay opinion would be to 
write a chapter, or perhaps a paper of the size of his present one, 
on the Pacific fisheries' and trading companies' venture of 1938, 
something on the historical side in more or less narrative form, re- 
counting the experiences of that investigation so far as he can put 
it together from his own recollections and notes and those of Kinky 
Alexander, which must still be available to you. At one time I urgod 
the Bureau to request Nelson to lay his diary or log book on the table 
as a part of his contribution to the first investigation. We perhaps 
do not need it. 
