[Note by R.B. Blodgett, the day of this letter is uncertain, it was sent undated by Rietschel and received by me in March 1981]

Siegfried Rietschel
Geology Department
Field Museum of Natural History

Robert B. Blodgett
Department of Geology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331

Dear Mr. Blodgett,

thank you very much for yours letters of March 12 and 19, which I found here, coming back from a two weeks excursion; although the material you've sent arrived safely and I looked at it yesterday, but I found no Scribroporella in it.

So I send back to you the six boxes with undetermined fossils as well as one box specimen of Coelotrochium (79RB4). The fossils, which look a little like Scribroporella are mostly amphiporoids.

I take now with me to Germany the six boxes with Coelotrochium (79RB6, 79RB8, 79RB9, 79RB11, 79RB12 and 79WG184). They should be safe from damage, for I take them in my hand baggage during the flight.

My work at Field Museum seems to be very fruitful and I am not so delighted to leave this week, for there is still a lot of half done work, which I have to finish in near future. But that is in the normal experience of a Museum visit.

So I wish you all the best for your work and your exams.

yours sincerely

Siegfried Rietschel

home address: Landessammlungen fuer Naturkunde,
Postfach 4045,
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WEST GERMANY