SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
March 29, 1966 
Mr, Jan Reese 
Pacific Program, Room 601 ¥ 
Smithsonian Institution 
Wahhington, D»G, 20^60 
Dear Jan; 
The items you listed, with the exception of the binoculars (which I don't have 
enough of at the moment) will be sent to Alaska with Bob Belong, I am also sending 
a set of walkie talkie radios with Bob along with a supply of batteries. 
I hope the supplies will get here before the Leewards trip takes off in late 
Kay or early June becau se I'm going to need some of the equipment you are sending. 
In a few days I'll go through everyth'^ng here and send you a listing of the things 
I am short of plus an estimate of the requirements for the coming year -— if you 
have not ordered any of these items please do. There is a good possibility there 
will be a few things on the listing that haven't previously been ordered. 
For the past month or two I've been going nuts. I have about 1$ uncompleted 
jobs laying around here and there that have been suspended by the writing of the 
Howland and Baker sections of the annual report, plus the compilation of several 
file systems and ahatek about a million and one other little tasks. 
iiflii|3raimHMmyiimnpis!banKdKiiucaHdxBm!i±nniHUcfci^ Don't worry about the 
freezer chests for the time being. If any are needed for the Leewards trips this 
June and July I'll buy several out here. In the meantime keep an eye open for the 
type I pre\riously mentioned - especially at Surplus Sales (or whatever they're called 
now) because they were the only folks that had them (only in the summer). If you 
should turn any up I'd like to have about six of them. Six should be enough to last 
through the rest of the project because this type is much more rugged andlasting 
than the aluminum ones where salt water is concerned,. 
I have fefept the original of all KcBee cards that have passed through here since 
last June (with quite a few from before that date). I have them filed away in series 
and it is an easy matter to look up any particular card. If any of the cards lack 
complete data it is due to the fact that it prbbably wasn't filled out when the bird 
was collected. Why don't you just send me a listing of the McBees you have for 
which there is no specimen in D.C. Then I won't make up cards for these when they are 
shipped to you, 
I have all of the SIC specimens here now (except for the ones Bob Delong brought 
back from Pago Pago-which have already been shipped to you.) From now on I'll send you 
a cover letter giving a listing of the specimena to be shipped and noting whether or not 
McBees are included. I'll send this letter about a wekk before the shipment is sent 
out. This shipment will probably be shipped to you no later than next Monday morning 
which means they should arrive in D.C. on Tuesda 3 '' or Wednesday (Apid.1 5-6)* 
Almost all of the binoculars people have out here are also broken ot full of 
funms. I'll send some more of these back in the near future. Please expedite the 
^^°rn of the pairs that xvere sent back for repair. About four or five more pair 
will be sent back to you within the next week or two. 
