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Scholarship as back as February 1923.  Then the month after my application for a six weeks stay at Tortugas granted, I was awarded the Scholarship.  This will necessitate my going to South America for about six months beginning sometime July next.

[[paragraph symbol]] However much I want to be considered for an opportunity to return to Tortugas this summer, if only for the month of June, I hesitate to make definite application as I have received strong intimations that any absence from the museum during my two years tenure of the Scholarship, beginning July 1, would be most unfavorably looked upon.

[[paragraph symbol]] I do hope that my present inability, in spite of my desire, to continue research at Tortugas will not militate against a future application for another Tortugas assignment.

Sincerely