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January If) , 1911. 
Dear Sir; 
The Institution is In receipt,ofrom the Department of 
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State, of a copy of a communication addressed to the American 
Ghnrgo' d'Affairos at Panama, hy the Minister of Foreign Dela¬ 
tions of .that Republic, in which it la requested on the part 
of the T’anam.an Government that the members the expedition 
ext on d their researches into the ’''omiblic of -'onams. t have 
today written to the Secretory of State expressing the Insti- 
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tution'o appreciation of the courtesy of the Government of 
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^onama in directing its officials to facilitate in every way 
possible the work of the expedition, and stating that tho 
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desire of tho Government of Panama that tho investigations of 
the party be extended into that Republic, would be carried 
out as far as practicable. T shall bo glad, therefore. to 
have you oxtond your investigations into Manama, so far as 
you may find it practicable to do so in the period mentioned 
and under tho allotment stated in my lotter of Decembor 19th. 
Very re see ot fully yoiirs. 
Profes or H. Pittler, 
^.0.Box 47, 
Gulebra, Canal Zono. 
CHAS. D. WALCOTT. 
Seoretary. 
<wou 
