Dr • V/aldo L • Schinitt 
IJ*3*JHtio"al Museuui' 
Wasli±ng*tori’^ sDiOgia 
Dear Dr* Schniittj 
THan-'s so very much for -a; 
the nice .letter and everv 
hang* 
Scie'nces 
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all the prints and for 
It is good to get bacli oh a boat again and to dive, into tVie hU'i 
traads. The Loc ks arrived here March ISth and ; 'o have worked everv day since 
then, but this one will certainly be an exception, 'fe are storm bound in 
Natalia Bay on the douth end of Sitkalidak Island. The Chaapion and Dorothy 
are both in Gook inlet (halibut Cove, Anchoj;- Ft., etc.) whe e thej,/' have taken 
several hundred or more King crabs. However, the Ghajapion had some of the Afo.gnak 
'w' • III ~i iiaiiwnw— — r iTr~i mmmrnmm 
ill luck and cracked tie number 1 piston ^ and mil lose some ten days Y/ith 
repairs. . The Dorotl' y (as usual) has spent the last two days mending ii^ts. p/e 
have: not done exceotionally Vnell 5 so far 5 but the hardest thing will^.e%p Gapt. 
Guffey from getting too discouraged. Pie took 103 crkbs in Alitak Bay before we 
left? but so far on the South side of Kodiak IsLand have bad nil. The crabs have . 
just this month shown themselves in Alrltak, andyall three boats are having the 
same .general re 8 ults“-~the crabs are in vshallov/er waters. Ivlethinks that Olga 
Bay is an exception and the crabs are earlier? beca,use there oJ-1 cra.bs taken had. 
a.lready moulted? ^^^hereas in Alitak the process seems to be.just now at its height 
You can imagine my excitement when a tangle net set off of Egg Island produced 
three pairs of ’’hand-shakers’*. The males were grasp 3 irig both chela of the female 
at the bases of the m 0 (|‘a>podite . As the Jap reports, the males have already 
moulted and are def 5 nitely hard (as a, matter of faPct p. mating male gives every 
appeamce of having .yn old shell ? but dactyl test negative) 5 whereas the females 
are oerfect oeelers. I think we a.re really hitting a. t the right season. 
The spa.cious 'oorklng space of the Tondelep^o had spoiled me? but I am 
fast becoming use to the ’’hole” to do my work in. P There’s no two ways about it? 
I miss you. 
I am not going to have much time for phot ogra^hy ai^ay? and now that I 
have gotten thelhs.ng of it I can yqtj well mrinage without the light meter? so I 
will, rack it co.refully and mail it from .Ko Pi ak? where we should be. in a few days 
I haven’t decided ’whether I dll mail the al^coR-tneter there are not? I’d Imte 
to ha-ve it broken en route, but I am saving it# 
P,7e received a very nice letter from Leon 3. ’/iiicent? now off of Pl/oody 
Island at Kodiak? and the person who started the King Cr?ib co.nnery at Halibut 
Cove. The letter came to our boat? and we are pla,nning to make a stop at his . 
place* I think it is a good bet? and he, wB.nts to give us some information that 
he dcked up during his three years with the crabs. He also ss.ys he has siame 
interesting small Kings? "hrimp? and fishes? and a very strange crs.b of the 
King fB.mily that he wants us to ’’look at”. Mair I do some very tadl and fast, 
bribing for the Museum. 
’Ye also saw a man yesterday, in Old harbor who ha-d canned (for private 
use) some King crabs in Bluefox Bay and Shuyak 3trait on the north end of Afognak 
Island, ^hat was in ’16? but he says they were really thick. Me caught all he 
needed with a pike pole. It is not in our schedule? but just a few hours run 
one of our points? so e will look in on it. Both Ghristey a.nd Carlson agree 
