July 12, 1932 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
The big envelope of things which I sent you was picked up 
on the mail man*s first round. Some other things have turned up 
since. 
Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Maloney have looked for the 
Bartlett things in order to get the original label for the barnacles 
frcxn the green turtle. They could not find anything but the barnacles 
which contain only Mr. Shoemaker's label copied from the original, 
giving what is evidently the mistaken data. The Fish Division has 
no record of having received the fishes. As I remember it, you were 
planning for Dr. Hildebrand to do the fishes, and didn't you keep 
them in this division, waiting for a propitious time to tiy to get 
them turned over to Dr. Hildebrand? Can you tell us where they are? 
Mr. Shoemaker thinks that it is very obvious that the latitude and 
longitude are turned aroimd. As the label reads, it is 75 N. Lat., 
and 9 W. Long. A reversal of these brings it near the Atlantic end 
of the Panama Canal. 
Mr. Burkenroad walked in about the middle of the morning 
I told him that I put his books away and cleaned the table up be- 
cause we needed the space. Mr. Shoemaker gave him a copy of the 
letter which we had already addressed to New York, and later this 
morning I retrieved the original from the mail. Mr. Sho "old 
him to go ahead and finish his drawings (which he still 
finished), but to be prepared to relinquish the table in a few days 
when your things begin arriving. Mr. Burkenroad said he had been 
home sick with ptomaine poisoning the last few days. I tried three 
times yesterday to call his boarding house and got no reply. I think 
it was a good thing that I cleaned up his table anyway. It was in 
a terrible mess, and now he can get off to a fresh start. Mr. ShoeQ 
maker told him he should have called us, but he excused himself by 
saying that each day he thought he would be able to come back. I 
wish you were here, but now that the thing, has come to a head, it 
may work out all right. 
Mr. Graf called Mr. Shoemaker yesterday to talk about a 
new laborer. He says they are going to try to represent to the 
President that a laborer here is an absolute necessity. Mr. "^hoe- 
maker reminded Mr. Graf that we hoped to get a white man of higher 
Sincerely, 
