August 14, 1941 
Mr. Roger W. Harrison 
2725 Monti aka Boulevard 
Seattl e , W ashingt on 
Dear Roger i 
Won't yon kindly attend to the enclosed letter? If there 
is anything to be given out from Washington won't you air mail a 
request to them to hasten lb*. Mayer's reply. You will note that . he 
is anxious to feave his wants attended to at your earliest convenience 
When you are through measuring them, I would like to have 
some of the small platypus that wore taken up in the Bering Sea, We 
have no young of this species at all in our collections. Of course, 
when you are through with all your work, I would like to have quite 
a lot of the specimens for the national collections. 
Sincerely, 
WLS : LMo 
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator , 
Division of Marine Invertebrates. 
