The mM Sitm 'Vmim is appreciated, lope folka had &s good 
a tia«s as the very beaatiJTsl jdctorc ae&m to indicate. HI bet yon 
feel relieved that yon did not 'book passage on the DOEH. 1 m $l»i 
too, As a Ooast Cnard bmi is r^xjrted bo have said,- — * 154 # big Ifellon 
■ms ts^fing to blaff the little feJloi# oat-~it*s done aH the tJ*® on 
the trans -Atlantic passenger ***»« *■ 
s^thia the next day or tao ym should be receivii:^ the grass aat 
m picked in Sottinica for yon. It is '^Ite a niee-lookii^ thing, 
with snell of mw-mm hay. It is a little mn^ on 
do I know? I picked up a cocple of n&H ones about 3 
VO have aloagside the beds. On the th^ 
perhaps mure worn '^wa. 
S^BOOth«^' 
t UrUm, $k,579»m 
earlier letters, I would 
foxwr f«r a 
the ilfeisew— of 
fh# balances r«aiiilai in 
Indian, ^, 273 . 22 , As I 
to earwtrk ti® to ^sre® toadred 
of strips of fi3» yet ' 
African (C&s^o) sculpture's «.« wa«vi^', 
feshiuftoB mtsmmmt to tie in with %ypt, and aca» of the sped- 
%ie back to tie in the seimtifle rosults with Ibsem, 
»n to wijRd lyhese things up with the Satimal Oeop^^phie 
SodLetj. A set of the kodaeliroises that the several of us took on 
the West Indian cruise will be together ri^t after the fix*st 
of Soptmbm^rn A1 ^Ith has wery good ones of the dip net collec- 
tions, but will be shoidng th«® at Storrs, COanecticat at a botanical 
society s€;etii^. It has been a bit diffieult to get tliw various 
slides togfither for making a set. Some will imed to be ihi|Hcat@d 
idiidh idll entail a Md.»al cbarge sgainst the balance r^sainijig in 
the Caribbean «x|M6dltlojsary fuad. The 1579 and $273 1 would like to 
leave on hand for ewi^leting the films and slides of the two- expedi- 
tions, but these will probably us® only a fraction of thorn 9mm» 
la ease you can count on a full 15,000 ftm the two fua^ as 
bel3^ available for idiat«v» other expedition you wish to dew e 
them. 
Cae^jog batdc to the plans for tte Society Islands, £ m wemt 
asking the State Bepartoait if imve «EQr official or semi- 
official contacts in the area who lalght pit ns in tou<& with 
possible charter oppcnrtiinities. We shall see, and I shall write 
you ihen we do. 
I^ards to you all bo^ and. small.,. 
Sincerely, 
W..M imk 
l>. Ssteitt 
lead Curator 
Beparteent of loology 
