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I have just recently returned from Ecuador and if conditions there are any criterion, most aliens who have gone there seeking work are in rather desperate circumstances. No end of men, both German and American, importuned me for an opportunity to return to the States with me, or even to Panama, thinking that they could sooner better their conditions there than where they were. If you plan to go to Juan Fernandez, I should certainly await more prosperous times.

Very truly yours,
[[initialed]]
Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator,
Division of Marine Invertebrates.

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