Mo one, inclu.:in : mytelf, ever said or wrote that /.nos would be refused 
the privilege of usin;* any of the pictures he took in publications he niipht 
write. Of coux’;;e, I would not ex^-ect hlsa to copyright them so that the 
Sndthsonian could not republish thera elsewliere or on s-- me other date. 
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Obviousl;,'', it is no’w iapossiblB to identify one roil or 
This staterant called forth the following reply from me, ’’I am not only 
surprised, but profoundly shocked, to liear that you removed, the 'canaisters' 
of Kodachropio film from the ba s (viith tJieir num.irical notations) in ^wMch 
you say you ori,'pln8lly placed, them, I cannot conceive of anj^ good reason 
that you could have for ..aillin;' a stunt like that, esrxicially after the talk 
you -nve me about calculations, exposure and basic date, cUia despite n^’ 
specific requests for that inforraatlon on at least two occasions well in 
adraneb of the sending." 
Kovj the pay-off. It ¥”'uld appear that the cannisters, without the bags, 
were brou,:bt back by A.nos on the plane, and that the ’’bags” were in a paper 
sack in his foot locker that came up by ocean’ freight vxith all our pear, and 
which XJ5S unpacked here at the Museum aftex* tte Customs inspectoi’s had 
passed it. 
After all that had bean said and written by kk;j about the Sraithsonian 
('With yoia- Fund) for all the film used on th.e cruise, includin; what 
any one had brou ‘ht aiorv;, thors were 3ii little berwn bags in that paper 
tack, 3 more than the number of rolls that I had provided Mm withj and, 
f'iore sui’prisin:: tluiri this, on the tags attached to' those b-ags I cannot 
dotact any numorical notations (unless so concealed that .1 could not find 
then) . . ' 
As I sec it from this eM, tho v;hola natter boils down to the follo'wing, 
does it not? 
1, Is the S^lths^ nian to be iXirnitted to examine (to see) 
all the film that ilr. Amos 8x.posed while a meml)er of the 
expedition, and 
2, Is the S .lithsonian to be granted Uie priv Liege of indi- 
catiri:-; w'nich oilr'inal negative or slide, it may wish to have for 
its ’''lies where tbei's is one or tiore of a particular subject? 
■f^^ei’e there ia onlj' one slide of a subject Amos has expressed hiraselX 
as will) n;-’ to accept a duplicate; and, he knows, as you and I ki.ovj, that. 
if it 'were essential, could borrow anji' uj-iique originals 
to satisfy a puliislier. 
that were needed 
