UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
PUERTO RICO AGRICULTURAL 
EXPERIMENT STATION 
AL/MB 
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April 28, 1937 
Dr. Waldo Schmidt, 
On Board the 3. 3. ” Joseph Conrad," 
San Juan Harbor, 
San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
Dear Waldo: 
Your letter of April 26th has just arrived this morning, and I was 
tremendously pleased to hear that you were unexpectedly back here in 
Puerto Rico. 
I will almost certainly be over to San Juan before you leave on May 
2nd, and I will surely make it a point to look you up. 
Concerning the visit of hr* Maurice Petit of the Botanic Darden of 
St. Thomas, we would be very pleased to have him visit this Experiment 
Station, The harbor at Mayaguez is charted for air plane landings so 
that he could come right to Mayaguez harbor if the marine planes could 
be persuaded to bring him here. 
I myself am leaving for Washington on May 6th instead of April 29th 
as I had expected when I saw you last. This departure is keeping me quite 
busy, but in case Mr. Petit should come either before or after my departur 
there are other men at the Station who could take care of him very ably. 
I will look forward to seeing you in San Juan if nothing comes up 
to interfere with my projected trip. 
I am not quite sure of how I should address this letter but hope 
that the post office will see that you get it. 
Please remember me to your friends on the Tt Joseph oonrad. 
With best personal regards. 
Sincerelv vours 
Atherton Lee 
Director 
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