UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
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Fish and Wildlife Service 
Technological Laboratory 
2725 Mont lake Boulevard 
Seattle, Washington 
July 25, 1941. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
United States National Museum, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
This is in reply to your letters of July 8 and 22. 
Needless to say, we are all sorry to learn that you probably 
will be unable to come out when the vessels return to confer with 
us in organizing the report work. However, we are still hopeful 
some later development may make this possible. 
I like your outline much better than the one I submitted, as 
it is in more logical order and fits in better with what we might 
have to offer. 
Wallace is making excellent progress in converting the data 
and is about two-thirds through all data accumulated by the three 
vessels up to June 15. We shall be looking forward to receiving 
the material you are sending. 
At some future date we will have to do more work with respect 
to canning, since within the last several months we have begun to 
find evidence of struvite crystals in the canned product, and, 
while this is normally expected, it detracts from the fine initial 
quality of the pack. 
The new appropriation is for the fiscal year, and the comple- 
tion of the investigation will be influenced by the way we can 
stretch the money. We are being as economical as possible now in 
order to have ample funds for completing the report, and possibly 
providing for checking on loose ends which might be found when we 
get into the data. 
I think we are all agreed as to the importance of the tangle 
net fishing, so your insistence in this respect is certainly not 
