UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Wcts/ivtyton, US.A. 
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF 
ALL CORRESPONDENCE 
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED 
TO THE SECRETARY 
SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE 
May 17, 1930. 
Dear Doctor Wetmore* 
This is to assure you that your box marked ‘’correo" yielded results 
at this end of the line after an interval of exactly ten days. I was very glad 
to hear of your work and hope it will continue to be pleasant and profitable. 
The bill for the extension of the National Museum came up before the 
House about three weeks ago but unfortunately Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin was 
objecting to everything that came up that morning so it had to go over. Within 
a few days after, it passed the Senate without opposition and will come up again 
in the House when it will take more than one objection to stop it. 
Mrs. Abbot and I spent a week-end very pleasantly indeed with Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles A. Stone at his stud farm near Charlottesville. They are de¬ 
lightful hosts and Mr. Stone told me very interesting tales of his early career. 
He is much interested in the Institution and will, I think, make an exception¬ 
ally satisfactory Regent if his appointment can be approved. At the request of 
Senator Smoot, I talked with Senator Norris about it yesterday, a«i although 
he said he appreciated all the excellent qualifications I urged in Mr. Stone's 
favor, and had no doubt that he was a man of very high attainments and excel¬ 
lence, yet an association with the power interests taken in conjunction with 
the Niagara Falls pamphlet required him to oppose the nomination to his best 
ability* It is likely, however, that Senator Smoot will be able to get it 
through the Senate, and in the House I think there will be no difficulty# 
