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August 3, 1940

Miss Marguerite LeHand
The White House
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Miss LeHand:

I promised you an accounting of the present status of the scientific reports on the specimens collected on the 1938 Presidential Cruise.  

I wish I could say that all the studies are complete, but unfortunately I cannot.  The amphipod specialist is still busy with those forms.  They are more commonly known as beach fleas or sand hoppers.  We are also awaiting returns on the isopods, or so-called fish lice and pill bugs.  Otherwise, I am turning in to the Smithsonian Institution five reports, as follows:

Cushman, J. A. Recent Foraminifera from Old Providence Island.

Deichmann, Elizabeth.  Coelenterates collected on the Presidential Cruise, 1938.

Stuart, Helen C.  A new cephalopod mollusk from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

Tattersall, W. M. Euphausiacea and Mysidacea collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

Wharton, G. W.  Acarina of the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

I hope to see these in print at a reasonably early date, and the other papers will follow along as soon as practicable.  I am afraid it will be some time next summer before all reports that can be