Mr. Art Hvatua 
o/o U, S* Fish and Wildlife Senrioe 
2726 Montlake Boulevard 
Seattle, ' i ns hingto 
Dear Art t 
1 am certainly grateful to you for that grand letter of 
H®y 12th, with the little note of transmittal of Ifay 14th that was 
clipped to the back of it* Gosh, I wish that I night have been with 
you on ®m ft Idle boats* for you did bring hone the bacon* Iasi 
It is hard to believe that you could get so many crabs into that one 
otter trawl. Perhaps they ere *3t 53* •* *01* *i.*@*&. by millions, after 
all* It gives us some idea what the Japs must have run Into from 
time to time* Perhaps the tost thing of all is that you folks have 
used tangle nets to some extent, so that one can compare their 
efficiencies with that of the trawler* 
la getting up that big lot of crabs, were may of them 
badly crushed? That is one point that was discussed at length* 
Are otter trawl e more destructive of crabs than tangle nets? 
Mr* Harrison will decide what is to be done with your 
oolleoti ns* It is ray rsooraaendation that everything be seat back 
here first for attention and for a later distribution to those who 
will undertake to wggkjUP various parts of the material* At one 
time Pat and 1 talkea/nis working up the embryology of the crabs as 
part of his thesis work at the University* To that end, we saved a 
number of egg samples and I suppose you have more of them* The first 
lot of egg samples are her®, and just as soon, m Pat is reedy for 
them I shall send thorn on to him. 
I do not know whether you will have time for (Study after 
you get back or not* The Bureau probably will not continue with the 
investigation unless Congress cones through with more money. If you 
should dec id® to go on with a higher degree and plan on working up 
some phase of the material, such as the fish, I am sure it could be 
arranged. I ■want to do a little system tic paper on the crabs, with 
some notes on growth so far as we got data during the first cruise, 
I ar. very grateful to you for remembering xae to our mutual 
friends in Alaska, I would like to have seen all of them, but I am 
glad that you did the honors in ay stead* 1 am afraid this letter 
