501 B 
Department of Commerce 
BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
Fish, and Wildlife Service 
Technological .Laboratory 
2725 lontlake Boulevard 
Seattle, Washington 
June 25, 1941. 
Dr. Vlaldo L. Schmitt, Curator, 
Division of larine Invertebrates, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
United States National Iluseum, 
Kashington, D. C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
This is in reply to your letters of June 3 and June 11. As 
you no doubt know by now, the extension has been approved, or at 
least Washington has been sufficiently confident to request that 
we rjroceed on this basis. 
The three vessels met at Kodiak about the 12th of June, re- 
arranged supplies, and the two being rechartered for the extension, 
namely, the "Locks" and the "Dorothy", headed back to the westward 
along about the 20th, and are now rechecking the waters south of 
the Peninsula while enroute to Dutch Harbor to pick up the summer 
supplies which were shipped from here yesterday via ITavy transport. 
Now that definite plans have been made for continuing the 
investigation and for returning ..allace here to Seattle to start 
working on the biological data, I am anxious to formulate more 
specifically the program for the field work and for assembling the 
data in report form. In this connection, there is attached a copy 
of the memorandum sent to Hr. Carlson and hr. Christey regarding 
the general aim and procedure for the field work during the next 
three months. If you have any suggestions about this, and especial 
ly for Pat and Art Hvatua, I would certainly appreciate your com- 
municating them to me. 
ith Wallace on his way bad: and due to arrive any time, I 
have lately begun giving more thought to the problem of working 
■ up the data and the method of presenting it in report form. As 
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suggested in your letter, there will be, no doubt, sufficient 
material for a number of specialized papers, but I am concerned, 
also, that we submit a rather complete report embodying all the 
practical aspects of the study. Tentatively, I have in lind a 
renort which would embody the following general sections: 
