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OF TRAVEL FUNDS FOR PEOPLE BUT FROM SCRIPPS AND THAT I DO NOT WANT TO RUN SHORT. 
Whatever is the maximum left intact of the $20,000, for even if Alpers drops out 
I may replace him with someone from Africa or Europe with MAXIMAL travel costs.. 
Ship from NIH our AT OUR EXPENSE. Do not make much use of Scripps and 
California supplies and shipping. That all comes from the funds. LEAVE EXCESS 
FUNDS FOR EMERGENCY PURCHASES IN HONIARA AND ELSEWHERE EN ROUTE!!! 
Summary: Contact Scripps and CANCEL any listed orders that are unessential 
and that invade this principle. Joe thinks there is a great deal. Start 
shipping NIH equipment to wherever Scripps wants it. Use our own budget for it. 
Do not use up our Scripps budget for this and do NOT let Alpers or Paul Brown or 
others do so. THIS IS VERY, VERY URGENT. I need $2,000 or more stand-by funds. 
If it is too late to get anything to Scripps from us, we can even air mail it to 
Honiara to await the ship there and save the Scripps funds that way. The 
important thing is that Scripps funds be left intact for travel funds and for 
emergencies which NIH CANNOT meet. All normal lab stuff and supplies can be met 
without using Scripps funds. DO NOT EVEN THINK OF EKG AND EEG MACHINES IF THEY 
USE UP FUNDS. I thought we were getting these borrowed from Harvard (Damon's 
equipment). If we are being billed anything for them — forget them. They are 
NOT that important! ! ! 
Please get me clued in to every order and all supplies and expenses. 
I am awaiting papers from you and Ferber. Also what else are you working 
on! Finally, please urge Dick to start getting himself placed, for I want him 
to move on academically and NOT stay with us. and that is urgent and mandatory. 
If I do not succeed, I will be forced to rapidly cancel all work in our section, 
closing it down, that involves him and his type of work, for I cannot go on with 
Dick clinging to our section. I shall approach the Director about this as an 
urgent matter if Dick does not soon get moving. I order that the Annual Report 
contain NOTHING about any of our old population and anthropological problems, 
for Dick appears to want to use this to cling to us. — Thats all 
Carleton 
