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[[preprinted]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D.C. [[/preprinted]]

October 8, 1938.

Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, 
Curator, Division of Marine Invertebrates, 
National Museum:

Dear Dr. Schmitt:

Will you be so kind as to ascertain whether the President would be willing to permit me to name for him one of the remarkable new echinoderms collected by yourself while on the [[underlined]] Houston [[/underlined]].

I do not feel myself at liberty to do this without his express permission.

Abundant precedent for this course is found in the numerous animals named for President Theodore Roosevelt and, earlier, for President Thomas Jefferson. 

The report on the echinoderms, including descriptions of three new species, will be ready in two or three days. I am sending a few specimens to my colleague Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard for comparison with others in that institution. When these are returned they will be photographed, and the manuscript will then be submitted for publication. 

Sincerely yours, 
^[[Austin H. Clark]]
Austin H. Clark,
Curator, Division of Echinoderms