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My dear Mr. Merriam, I wish to thank you for the several separates of the brief account of my past summers work at Tortugas. [[paragraph symbol]] I should like very much to continue the studies I was [[insertion]] ^ so generously [[/insertion]] permitted to initiate at that time and carry then them along and over into their ecologic phases as developed by those more or less preliminary observations. And furthermore I am anxious to undertake certain investigations in collaboration with Dr. Longley on one or more of some of the rather fascinating problems confronting him in so far as they have a bearing on the ecology of the crustacea. [[paragraph symbol]] It has long been my ambition to [[strikethrough]] know [[/strikethrough]] know and learn all I could about crustacea, and that aim of course entails more than just [[strikethrough]] sy [[/strikethrough]] the systematic aspects of the group. I hope to be able to become as familiar with these forms in the field, their life habits and behavior, as with the morphologic and systematic phases in the laboratory. [[paragraph symbol]] With this in view I ^first made [[illegible strikethrough]] application for the Purdy Bacon [[strikethrough]] Scho [[/strikethrough]] Travelling