UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
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Sop tembe r 11, 1915. 
Mr. Alex Wetmore 
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Corinne, Utah. 
Dear Mr. Wetmore: 
The four jars containing the alkaline earth and water for analy- 
sis were duly received. As you probably know, the chemist was very 
anxious to learn just what these preparations were to be examined for. 
I shall be obliged, therefore, if you will furnish the data so that it 
may be included in our letter requesting the work to be done. 
Your letters of August 27 and September 2 were duly received. 
In regard to the expenses for the first quarter, I understand that out 
of your authorisation of #1000 you plan to exp-end $658, leaving a balance 
of over $300. You undoubtedly include your salary in the item of $1075, 
which represents the entire expenditure for the quarter . Your ,€piperim$nt 
with shot is mighty interesting, and goes far towards proving that our 
theory about ducks and swans i3 the correct one. 
Your plan is a good one to secure temporary assistants from guides 
who pay their own subsistence. You will undoubtedly miss Day Bosley, 
but his school preparation, will be of great value to I am -rery much 
interested in the food of the blue heron, the pollers oi which were . o 
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warded to this office. Some one out in the Middle West found a oic.uern 
feeding on young prairie chickens, and future experience may show that 
