SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 31, 1937 
Dear Dr, Schmitt: 
Your letter from Gape Haitien got here Monday, and the one from 
San Juan arrived today. I'm glad that you got my Nassau letter and that 
you think the key was all right. I finished the proof last Thursday and 
took it over to Oehser and went over several points with him. I called him 
Monday as soon as your letter cane, hut the proof had gone to the printer, 
so it was too late to make the further change in Callidactylus . He says 
he thinks we can put it in page proof, for it won't he much extra. 
Oehser said that where the inconsistencies were not too had, he 
thought he would let them go so as to keep the cost down. I went over the 
proof so very carefully trying to catch every inconsistency, and I'll he 
sorry if he doesn't have them corrected. He says that it is going to he a 
tremendous expense at hest, hut since it won't he out until a T ter July 1st 
the cost can he divided and part taken from next year's appropriations. 
I found many inconsistencies in the tables, particularly in referaces 
to different vessels and to the University of Iowa expeditions. I hope I caught 
them all. The worst was the frequent reference to MKhxxks "State University 
of Iowa Biological Expedition." That, of course, didn't tell anything. In 
some few cases it was given "State University of Iowa Bahama Expedition," which 
was as it should he, and I changed them all to read like that. I could tell 
the difference between the Bahama and Barbados-Antigua expeditions by the dates 
of course; the former in 1893 . the latter 1918 . 
Mr. Bryant just called me to ask me to get your check when I get mine 
this noon, because Mrs. Schmitt is coming here for it at 12:30* It is after 
11 now, so I shall probably see her before I finish this letter. 
She called me one day last week to tell me that Fred had written 
that he will come Monday, the 5 th, and stay until Friday, the 9 th. She says 
if it seems as though he would really like to stay over that week end she will 
try to take care of him. He wrote her, however, that he had heard nothing 
from the Garths (he wrote them) and so was not sure they would he here the 
10th, as John said, and thinks it isn't worth while for him to say stay over 
just on the chance of seeing them. 
Miss Rathbun has been sick. She went home quite early Friday after- 
noon after telling me that she wasn't feeling well and her chest and throat 
hurt. Saturday she didn't come, and Monday she called to say that she had 
a sort of laryngitis. Said she couldn't talk much and could hardiy eat, and 
that the doctor was coming. Mr. Shoemaker stopped in to see her last night. 
