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NATURAL HISTORY 
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OTTAWA, May 4, i960. 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Division of Marine Invertebrates , 
U. S. National Museum, 
Washington 25# D. C. 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
I hope this letter finds you safely back in the Museum once 
more. Words are scarcely adequate to express my profound indebtedness 
to you for inviting me to participate in the Yucatan expedition. 
Despite the problems of logistics and operation, I felt the work was 
very successful and very instructive. I think I learned more about 
littoral collecting from you and the boys in the past four weeks than 
I had in the past four .years on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of 
Canada. I would wholeheartedly agree with Jack Clarke’s estimate of 
your leadership; there is no place in the world we wouldn’t be 
willing to go w T ith you, with or without labels’ 
I am herewith enclosing an accounting of monies received from 
you, monies spent on expedition business, and a refund of monies 
outstanding. I hope this meets with your approval. The airlines 
people allowed me only $40.80 refund cn the unused fare from New 
Orleans to Merida, though I did present what I thought was a good 
case for the entire $51.00 refund. 
I am beginning to get back some developed, film of the expedition. 
Two rolls of Kodachromes contain some useful shots of the early part 
of the trip, and the first few hundred feet of movie film received has 
some interesting sequences. They bring back some pleasant memories’ 
I am looking forward to receiving the film which you will have 
developed in the United States. 
Under separate cover I am sending you a copy of the report I 
submitted to Dr. Russell on my participation in the Expedition. 
Perhaps it may be of help in preparing your own account of the trip. 
T would be glad to have my diary abstracted if you wish; I trust that 
Harald will send along a copy of his excellent log. 
Please convey my best wishes to Harald and Jack, and to the 
folks in the invertebrate division. I am looking for any excuse to 
come down and see you all again’ In the meantime, my warmest regards 
to you. 
Sincerely, 
E. L. Bousfield, 
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology. 
