SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 10, 1937 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Mrs. Schmitt was in this morning and brought the diary. 
Your letter on the fancy Conrad stationery had been delivered, so 
we read it. Your wife had come down to pay the income tax, but found 
she left her power of attorney at hope, so she will have to make 
another trip. 
A letter came from Gravier today. He says that after making 
all possible researches, he still found no date for Cuvier's plates. 
He says, "I do not think it [the date] exists. Our librarian, M. 
Bultingaire, who has written a memoir on Cuvier as an artist (he 
drew and even engraved) thinks that the date does not exist." 
Do you want me to type the little note for Miss Gordon now? 
If so, please tell me what you did with it. You did not leave it out 
in sight. 
Also, do you know what became of the Kemp letter? I have 
hesitated to write Graham about it, thinking that you may have sent 
it to him. If you didn't send it, however, I think he ought to be 
told at once that there is no hope in that direction. 
Where in the world do you hide things? 
Mrs. Pearson will make the correction of dates for the 
P. corrugates . 
Your wife says you will be too spoiled for anything when 
you get back, after the soft life you are living now. Never mind, 
we'll all do our best to take it out of youl 
Too bad you and Lunz were seasick. Didn't you have any 
pills along? Believe me, I'm not going to start out without them. 
I imagine that Mr. Rathbun has already started the drawing, 
for he asked me a couple of days ago how long he had to work on it— if 
a week would be time enough. I said I thought even two weeks, but he 
said he'd like to get it finished up sooner. If he has already begun, 
I suppose there's no point in having him change to another crab. I 
should think the crab most characteristic of the volume would be better 
than the one which happened to be mentioned last. 
