UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Ilarch 22, 1912 • 
¥r. Alex V/etmore, 
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Eox 626, San Juan, P. R. 
Dear V/etmore: 
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I received your letter day before yesterday and 
v/ould have sent my aux. at once but as Dr. Fisher had 
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put in a special order for your nev/ one and I could 
not get mine off before the next day, it v/ould have 
saved onlj/^ one day betv/een the time you Vi/ould have re- 
ceived mine and your new one. This did no]^ seem worth 
while. 
I helped unpack five boxes of specimens from you 
this morning and eleven more have just gone upstairs. 
These bird skins wrapped in newspaper have come in very 
good shape, especially' the larger ones. The soft paper 
seems to distort them less than the stiff paper used 
in the previous shi^jment, but the very small skins are 
somewhat j aimed in transit. I think that very soft paper 
would be better for the very small skins. We can send 
you a roll of soft paper for the small skins, but so far 
as possible you should avoid mixing small skins with 
large. The small skins always suffer the most from 
jai'iming. Most of your miedium and large skins are in 
