501 B 
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Department of Commerce 
Fish and Wildlife Service 
Technological Laboratory 
2725 Montlake Boulevard 
Seattle, Washington 
February 20, 1941. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Curator of Marine Invertebrate, 
Smithsonian Institution, 
U. 8. National Museum, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I am enclosing for your information a copy of a letter to 
the Administrative Assistant of the Fish and Wildlife Service 
from the U. S. Employees' Compensation Commission regarding 
Ed Verburg's eye injury. 
As near as can be determined at present Ed has lost the 
sight of his left eye and the question seems to be whether or 
not they can keep the eye alive or whether it will have to be 
removed and replaced by a glass eye. 
In vi ew of the fourth paragraph of the attached letter, 
I wish you would prepare immediately a statement in duplicate 
regarding what you know about Id's injury and place it in the 
hands of Mr. E. J. Thompson, in Charge Personnel and Payrolls, 
Fish and Wildlife Service, South Agriculture Building, Washington, 
D. C. 
For your information I am enclosing Verburg’s sworn state- 
ment regarding the accident and copies of my letters relative 
to the matter. I am requesting Joe Puncochar to write a report 
also. 
Sincerely yours, 
RWH : vh 
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