UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
August 10, 1911 
Mr. Alex fetmore, 
Bellingham, Washington. 
Dear Mr. Wetmore: 
I am enclosing herewith a permit to collect and ship from 
the Alaska Peninsula four large hears and six caribou as per 
my recent telegram. 
The collection of birds obtained on your trip to the 
western islands is received and proves to contain some very 
interesting specimens. The series of ptarmigan are especially 
desirable and valuable. We shall look forward with great 
interest to the results of the of t hr o - work you are now engaged 
1 find that your original orders were made out with Washington 
as your official station, and it will be much better for you 
to come straight here and remain a week or ten days in order 
to talk your work over and get a distinct idea of the nature 
of the report required. Then it will be possible to give you 
a two months leave of absence without pay when you can go to 
Lawrence and complete your school work, afterwards coming back 
to Washington to complete your report. 
Very truly yours 
/ 
Chief, -B-iological Survey. 
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