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[[header]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON, D.C. [[/header]] July 13, 1926. [[faded or whited-out]] MEMORANDUM. [[/faded]] Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator of Marine Invertebrates, U.S. National Museum. Dear Dr. Schmitt: I take pleasure in formally acknowledging the receipt as a gift from the Walter Rathbon^[[e]] Baker Scholarship of 579 speci-mens of crustacea; 20 annelid worms; 1 lot bryozoa; 1 sponge; 2 ascidians; 3 tow-net samples; 2 bottom samples; 11 water samples; a few dry echinoderms; a small collection of mollusks; 4 fish; 1 turtle and 3 frogs; and some geological specimens; - collected in Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. It is understood that this completes the collection of material made by you during 1925, while serving as a Bacon scholar for the years 1925 to 1927. Very truly yours, [[handwritten, signature]] A. Wetmore [[/handwritten]] Assistant Secretary. ljs.