practically devoid in this respect since we did not have the facil- 
ities for collecting crabs in the early stapes and our fishing ef- 
fort • as so inf initesimal with reyard to the entire area, that ’-e can 
not hope for a: . ' recovery of tagged crabs. 
/alter Sands, who has been doing hydrographic work for 
Dr. Davidson in Dering Sea, has suite a bit of information on tem- 
peratures , salinity, et cetera, and also a number of samples of 
the micro-organisms in the waters at the various stations. 'on 
much use do you think we should try to make of Sands’ data and 
specimens? 
There are so many things to be ironed out before we really 
got seriously started into preparation of a report that I wish e 
all could get together. Do you suppose you could spare the time 
to come to Seattle for a week or so this fall when the boats re- 
turn, in case the appropriation would stand the expense of your 
trip? I wish you would give some thought to this possibility and 
if you would be agreeable, I ill 3 the matter up with r. 
Fiedler. In the meantime, I hope you will be able to give me your 
reactions to my lett ev oi , to. the Questions r i -W- 
herein, so that vre can begin the preliminary work on the data in 
a more intelligent manner. 
It seems quite apparent that the crabs taken east of the 
Aleutians are much larger than those taken in Japan, and if laru- 
kawa’s method of determining age is correct, most of our crabs 
must have been twenty-five to t flirty-.. me years oln, .wiles, 
find, that they grow at a more rapid rate. .. allace started plot- 
tin" some of his Cook Inlet data at 5 m . intervals, uiu, i« • y" 
beginning to appear that he was simply getting a single normal 
distribution, so he is going to start ovui , plotting ^dtn i 
. 1 .... interv of c . 2© widths. Even if © 
not have enough information on samples over the entire ran-:o from 
- - u to commercial canning size and t3 
capped in '"establishing- age, we will at least have a good me- sure 
of size distribution of crabs taken in commercial gear in the 
various areas, 
With, kind personal regards fro i all Oi ut>, 1 usi 
Sincerely yours, 
Technologist in Charge# 
Amina just received the other day your letter mailed 
frnn the (CalaoaKOS Islands# 
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