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March 20, 1946 
Dear Mr. Graf: 
With this I hand you a second letter from Dr. Folke 
Linder, of the Zoological Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. 
Dr. Linder apparently is coming to this country on 
funds provided by his Institution and so will, after all, not 
need State Department assistance. He would, however, like to 
obtain a temporary position in our Museum for half a year. I 
do not know whether Civil Service would consent to such an 
appointment. In fact, from what I know of the present regu¬ 
lations, it would be impossible if government funds were re¬ 
quired to pay his salary. Apparently, judging from Mr. Zwemer’s 
letter of February 26 (which I return herewith), we cannot look 
to the State Department for assistance. I therefore hope that 
Smithsonian funds may be made available. 
It certainly would be to the credit of the Institu¬ 
tion to have such a highly qualified man working here on our 
collections, and I specifically recommend that he be given a 
Smithsonian grant. He is a world authority on the Branchiopod 
Crustacea, forms for which there has been no specialist avail¬ 
able in this country for many years. Our collection is to a 
considerable extent unidentified and has not been reviewed or 
revised since the original deposition of the material, some 
of which goes back to Packard’s dajrs in the middle 1800’s. 
This is an opportunity well worth any reasonable grant that 
the Smithsonian could make in furtherance of this study. I do 
not know what the State Department considers reasonable in 
cases of this sort, but I would suggest that Dr. Linder be 
given a grant of |600-|800, with the understanding that he 
identify and revise our Branehipod collections and other 
related lower Crustacea. 
Sincerely, 
(signed) Waldo L. Schmitt 
Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Head Curator, 
Department of Biology. 
WLS:LMc 
