SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
March 8, 1937 
Dear Dr. Schmitt: 
Your letters came this morning hut the diarj, which I gather 
that you sent at the same time, has not arrived, yet. I was in Dr. 
Wetmore* s office for a few minutes this morning. At first he was not 
going to have me type your letter to him, hut after he read a page or 
two aloud he passed it over to me and said, "Will you type it?" 
The locality for Beatty* s Pachvgraosu s transversus (Gibbes) 
is "Prom corals and moss. Salt River, St. Croix. No. 209." I note, 
however, that it is P. corrugatus (von Martens) that you want to know 
about. It was in an earlier sending and the locality is as follows: 
"No. 139 . On coastal rocks, Judith Fancy Bay, St. Croix." His speci- 
men was an ovigerous female. 
I am sending you a copy of the National Geographic contain- 
ing your article. I could find no separates in that drawer of the file 
case. There were six complete numbers of the magazine, and pieces of 
two others from which your article had been torn out. I looked care- 
fully for separates, but found none. 
I have already written you twice at Miami, and shall send 
this there, a3 you are probably on your way there now. 
T needn% have worried about my leave not being approved It 
seems that under the new leave rules the only approval necessary is 
that of the head of the office. Thus, if you approve leave for any 
of us in this office, that is all there is toss to it. I think it is 
a much better arrangement. 
My trip is all about planned, I think. I can go down on 
the Panama Railroad Steamship Line for $50* as I am a government 
employee. Dr. Wetmore is writing them a letter for me. As soon as 
I get it, I shall send them my money for passage on the Ancon, which 
leaves New York June 2nd, stops at Port-au-Prince, and reaches Christobal 
on the 10th. Dr. Wetmore will also write a letter for me to the Mb 
M aersk people, and I shall try to get passage on their boat which leaves 
Panama June 21st for L.A. He will also write something for me to carry 
along to show that I am a government employee. Mr. Zetek said I should 
have some such credentials. Dr. Wetmore was very nice, thought it was 
a good trip and that I'd have a good time, and made some suggestions 
of things for me to do whiskx while I'm in Panama. I'm glad I was able 
to get the lower rates. 
