if Art and Pat will be too busy helping Wallace. Also, I want to do 
something in a txonomio way on the species of king orabs of idle north 
Pacific. That has long been wanted and should not take me long when 
I once get at it. Schultz has already named some of the fishes, but 
Carl will need a fuller account of the collections saved for his report 
and so we may have to pressure Schultz a bit to finish up the job this 
fall, 
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I gather from your letter that the appropriation will finish 
out the calendar year for you, or will you have Wallace, Pat, Art, and 
Carl until next July 1st? 
All specimens not actually needed for study at your end 
should be transferred to the national Museum for safekeeping. They 
oan always be shipped wherever necessary whenever they are needed for 
examination. Also, any specimens that may be held out on the west 
coast for study should be turned over to the national Museum when 
those studies are completed. In that way, a reference collection is 
built up available for future consultation in case any questions arise 
regarding the survey and the species taken in oomeotion with it. 
Your memorandum to Chris tey and Carlson also covers the ground 
very thoroughly, I hate to stress the tangle net fishing because it 
is such a blank nuisance, but because of the selective nature of the 
gear and the fact that it seems to be that used chiefly by the Japs 
we need to know all that we can learn about it. 
There is one thing that does not seem to have appeared in 
your letters yet. That is how the traps have worked, if they have 
been used, in the Bering Sea. I oan well imagine that the water is too 
deep for their successful application there, but around the Shumagins 
where you have no end of rooky bottom you will have to use either 
traps or tangle nets. 
No doubt, as you found it to be the case last fall, the 
orabs are pretty well scattered out over the bottom and so your fish 
boats may have another heartbreaking time of it, I like idle idea of 
working out and up to the Pribilofs and around Nunivak, 
How much was seen of the Japanese operations this year? 
One ohapter of your report should give some sort of an outline of the 
areas in whioh they operated and the vessels employed by them. If the 
Coast Guard has not kept olose watch on them they should be encouraged 
to take it up again, Earl Ohmer lias promised to keep a record of the 
king orabs turned in at his place through this calendar year and if 
it is advisable to oontinue beyond that I know he will oooperate. 
