No one, including myself, ever said or wrote that Amos would be refused 
the privilege of us in any of the pictures he took in publications he might 
write. Of course, I would not expect him to copyright them so that the 
Smithsonian could not republish them elsewhere or on some other date. 
When Amos turned ov .r to me the ex;»sed film he personally brought home 
.edition, do wrote that he had taken his "basic cate to 
technicians. . . for advice • ..'hen I asked turn for these data, or calculations, 
os he called them at another time, s the processors here In Washington 
might be guided by them, he wrote (June 6): ’’You will note that the 3d nm. 
films are” in cannisters and not in ba s. I removed them to facilitate pack- 
in ■. fho labels to those ha s had numerical notations or. them that referred 
*i . . is sou impossible to identify one roll or 
a nother#* 1 
This statement called forth the following reply from me, 'I am not only 
surprised, but profoundly shocked, to hear that you removed ' caniiisters' 
of Kodachrone film from the ba s (with their numerical notations) in which 
you sr.y you ori Inally placed then. I cannot conceive of any good reason 
that you could have for . wiling a stunt like that, especially after the talk 
you gave me about calculations, exposure and basic data, and despite my 
specific requests for that information on at least two occasions wo 11 in 
advance of the sending." 
o the pay-off. It weald appear that the cannisters, without the bags, 
were brought back by Amos on the plane, and that the "bags' 1 were in a paper 
sack in hi s foot locker that came up by ocean freight with all our gear, and 
ms unpacked here at the Museui iT the Customs inspectors had 
it. 
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After all that had been said and written by me about the Smithsonian 
(with your Fund) p&yin for all the film used on the cruise, including what 
one had brought along, there were % lit bowwn bags in that r 
.‘•■nek, 3 more than the number of rolls that I had provided him withj and, 
'.ore surprising than t' is, on the tag’s attached to those bags I cannot 
detect any numerical notations (unless so concealed that I could not find 
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\ As I see it from this end, the whole natter boils down to the following, 
8 it not? 
1. Is the Smiths •nian to be permitted to examine (to see) 
all the film that Ir. Amos exposed while a member of the 
expedition, and 
2. Is the Smithsonian to be granted trie privilege of indi- 
cating which original ne votive or slide it may wish to have i or 
Its 'lies where there Is one or sore of a particular subject? 
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Are re there is only one slide of & subject Amos lias expressed himself 
ns willin ; to nccc t a duplientej and he knows, as you and I know, that, 
if it were essential, he could borrow any unique criminals that were needed 
satisfy a pit Usher# 
