SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
July 13, 1926 
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Curator of Marine Invertebrates, 
U. S# national Museum. 
Dear Dr. Schmitts 
I take pleasure in formally acknowledging the receipt as 
a gift from the Walter HathboneBaker Scholarship of 579 speci- 
mens of cinstacea; 20 annelid worms; 1 lot bryozoa; 1 sponge; 
2 ascidians; 3 tow-net sanqples; 2 bottom samples; 11 water samx)les; 
a few dry echinoderms; a small collection of mollusks; 4 fish; 
X turtle and 3 frogs; and some geological specimens; - collected 
in Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. 
It is understood that this completes the collection of material 
made by you during 1925, while serving as Bacon scholar for the years 
1925 to 1927. 
Very truly yours. 
Assistant Secretary 
IJs 
