February 5, 1941 
Dr. Olga Hartman 
Allan Hancock Foundation 
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, California 
Dear Miss Hartmans 
lifter considerable wandering , your letter of October 25th 
has finally reached no. You wore certainly good to give a© so rauoh 
of your time, "hose worms from the crabs wore quite a i ob , but one 
that tos very gratefully received at this ©nd. 
Would you bo willing and will the Hancock Foundation per- 
mit you to look at my Alaskan worn collections? They don’t amount 
to much, but if you care to do then for the sake of duplicates that 
you nay retain. I’ll send then out as soon as the collections have 
been sorted over# There will be enough of the tube masses that you 
will bo able to keep a generous sample* 
I wish that I might have been there for the dedication 
ceremony. From the clippings I have received it must be a grand 
set-up and I hops the endowment will keep pace with the needs of 
the scientific work, 
What about the recent earthquakes? Did you feel them in 
Los Angeles? I saw a recent picture of Pt. Persia slipping into the 
My best to everybody at the laboratory. 
Sincerely* 
WLS : LMe 
Waldo L. Schmitt* Curator, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates, 
