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684c. In Reply To Letter No........          
Department of Commerce [[strikethrough]] and Labor [[/strikethrough]]
Bureau of Fisheries
Washington

Address all communications to
"Commissioner of Fisheries,
Washington, D.C."

April 13, 1914

Mr. Waldo L. Schmitt, Naturalist,
Fisheries Str. Albatross,
Seattle, Wash.

In reply to your letter of March 30, you are advised that I knew that the matter of sending the Albatross to Alaska was under consideration, but I understand that nothing definite in the matter has yet been decided.  It is my understanding that the project is to make one trip about July, and I am advised that the weather at that season is such as would make it difficult to carry on the fishery investigations at that time.  I had not understood that to be the fact from previous correspondence with the Albatross, or from my consultations during my visit to the vessel last fall.

You are justified in thinking that you should have received advice in regard to the literature for which you asked.  As I have already advised you, this matter was turned over to the Librarian, and I supposed that it had been attended to.

The office is advised that the wire has reached, or shall have reached Baltimore, but it has not been possible to get track of it, although its release from customs