May 27, 1941 
Mr, Roger W* Harrison 
2725 Monti ake Boulevard 
Seattle, Yf ashing ton 
Dear Roger t 
This is a terribly belated acknowledgment of your letter of 
March 28th, but it is ray first opportunity to write you since my re- 
turn from a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands. The notice for this 
trip was so short that they sent me down to Panama and bade by plane* 
I am glad that the few mishaps you have load didn't handioap 
the work as they did last year* It certainly is nice to know what 
there is in king crabs, even if they are not there in tremendous quanti<8 
ties. It may be that results since your letter have been more promis- 
ing. I hope so for your sake. It would be nice to make a big killing 
at the tail end of the season. 
With this I send you a copy of a letter regarding the Japanese 
names for the crabs that came in my absence* Joe has a copy and I am 
sure you would be interested, too. Notice that the name for our .Alaska 
king crab indicates that it is a dweller on the codfish grounds. How 
closely that fits in with Captain Traf ton’s results of his codfish trials 
in the Bering SeaJ I hope he is having equally good luck this summer. 
If so you may yet be able to make something of an Alaska king crab fish- 
ery. 
Under separate cover I am sending you ten copies of the few 
pages I contributed to the Smithsonian Explorations Pamphlet on the 
Alaska trip. Please give one to each of your staff members on the 
boats, meaning Pat, Arthur, Roy, Carl, Jim, and Captain Trafton, not 
forgetting Armina, who did all the typing that made this end result pos- 
sible. If you need a few more , I may be able to help you out. I sent 
six over to Mrs. Aller for the Bureau files. 
From Fred Menton in Kodiak I gathered the impression that his 
brother was once interested in fishing king crabs. It turns out that 
it was his cousin of whom he spoke. This copy of George Menton’ s letter 
sets forth the truth of the matter. 
This South American project is something in which some of the 
other government departments are interested and it is going to keep me 
busy for the balance of the calendar year, it seems. 
