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Department of State

Washington

December 31, 1941.

My dear Dr. Wetmore:

With reference to your memorandum of December 26, 1941, I am pleased to inform you that the Department has now received a telegram from the American Ambassador at Quito to the effect that the Ecuadoran Government has given permission for Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt to visit the Galápagos Islands from time to time in connection with the laboratory to be constructed there under the program of cooperation with the American republics.

The Ecuadoran Government's blanket authority has been given on the understanding that the appropriate Ecuadoran authorities will be informed in advance of Dr. Schmitt's visits, through the American Ambassador at Quito.

Sincerely yours,

(Signed) Paul C. Daniels
Assistant Chief
Division of the American Republics.

Dr. Alexander Wetmore,
Assistant Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.