( 7 ) . Qualif i cati oiis # - 
Degrees; B*S« George Washington University, 1915; M*A., University 
of California, 1^16; Pla* D* , George Washington University, 1922* 
(b) Positions ; Aid in Economic Botahy, U. S* Department of Agriculture 
1907-10; Aid, Division of liarine Invertebrates, U.S* National IMsearn, 1910; 
Scientific Assistant, Steamer “Albatross”, U* S* Bureau of Fisheries, 1910-13, 
Naturalist of same 1914; Assistant Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, 
U, S. National Museum, 1915-1920, Curator since 1920* 
experience# In the early part of 1911, I participated in the 
^ilbatross LeRtv^eF "Cand Gulf ofY Calif or nia Czniis e, conducted by the American Museum 
of Natural History under the direction of Dr .C.H*To7msen^; in the summer and fall 
of the same year I was engaged in salmon investigations for the U* S. Bureau of 
Fisheries in the Chignik Lake region of the Alaska Peninsula; from 1912- 1913, 
I took an active part in the Biological Survey of San Francisco Bay under the 
leadership of Dr* F. B. Sumner, now of the Scripps Institiition; and in 1914, per- 
sonally directed the Halibut Survey, undertaken bv tiie Bureau of Fisheries off the 
coasts of F/ashington and Oregon as Naturalist of the Steaiaer Albatross, to which 
vessel 1 was attached as assistant naturalist during the three years preceding* 
In 1918, under detail to the Bureau of Fisheries, I spent three months in Southern 
California, in connection with certain studies on the life history of the Spiny 
Lobster* 
d. Publications. Survey of the Fishing Grounds on the Coast of 
Yfashington and Oregon in 1914, Bureau of Fisheries Doc. No. 817, 30 pages, 1 
plate, 2 charts, Washington, D* C., 1915. Schizopod Crustaceans of the Canadian 
Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, 8 pages, 3 text figures, 0tta\m, 1919*- The ^^rine 
Decapod Crustacea of California, 470 pages, 50 plates, 165 text figures, Univ* 
California itib. Zool., vol. 23, Berkeley, 1921*- Report on the Crustacea Ifacrura 
(Families Peneidae, Campylonotidae and Pandalidae) obtained by the P.I.S., "Endeavour 
in Australian Seas; for the Australian Museum, now in press. 
e. Physical .- Health very good, eyes astigmatic, fully corrected by 
glasses, and somewhat liard of hearing, but neither to the extent of hindering 
my field work, set forth above, or the laboratory work upon which my publicatiors 
have been based. ¥^11 glrdly furnish any desired medical certification. 
(8)* Tiir^. If possible, should like to be permitted to become the Walter 
Rathbone Bacon^^^Sholar for the two year period beginning July 1, 1925, or July 1, 192 
Respectfully 
Schmitt 
Curator of ^^krine Invertebrates 
