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Department of Commerce [[strikethrough]] and Labor [[/strikethrough]]
Bureau of Fisheries
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Berkeley, Calif., August 26, 1913.

Dr. Hugh M. Smith,
Commissioner of Fisheries, 
Washington, D.C.,

Dear Sir,
Dr. Sumner has told me that he has handed in his resignation to the Bureau.  Should this be favorably acted upon and should the Bureau, in due time, take up the matter of filling the consequent vacancy, I should like to be considered as an applicant for the position.
I have been with the ship for the greater part of the last two and a half years.  During that time I have taken part in the Lower California Cruise and have personally participated in the first two trials made on the last halibut survey.  I have spent three months in Alaska during the salmon run at Chignik ^[[,]] in the summer of 1911 ^[[,]] and since that time have been with the present Survey of San Francisco Bay, and, of course, have taken an active part in it.
I hold the degree of B.S. from the George Washington University.  My major subject was zoology.
Though I do not wish to seem forward, I do feel that with my tra^[[in]]ing ^[[,]] and experience on the ship ^[[,]] I am capable of efficiently filling such a position as [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] that of Naturalist on the Albatross.  Hoping that you will pardon the "formal-personal"