SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20S60 
March 7, 1966 
Mr, Jan Reese 
Pacific Program, Room 601 W 
SSnithsonian Inst. 
Dear Jan: 
Just finished checking over the goodies that were sent out with the last 
shipment from D.C. Most of the stuff looks as if we may have some applications 
for it. I'll go over it item by item and make some comments: 
1, Gloves— I don't know whether or not these gloves will hold up during intensive 
banding of ^edge-tailed Shearwaters - they may not. Nevertheless, they certainly 
^11 much protection as the present gloves for the fawwirant boobies and 
other species. Why don't you snatch up about 50 pair and send them out here. 
After they've been used for a while I'll let you know how they hold up, 
/c 2, Flight suits— these would most certainly be too hot for general use or wear 
in most of the areas in which we work. However, several of the people have 
been purchasing their own coveralls for special chores. Husted, for example, 
goes through several pair of coveralls each trip because he repairs the out¬ 
board motors. Every now and then there is a grubby job for which these suits 
would be just the thing, Gould you send out about 10 pair of them, 
—■ 3, The cloth tape with the red stripe is just the thing for putting together 
cardboard boxes, There is a continual demand for such tape from 
the field trips and from the island stations. Send about 20 tolls or so. 
If I get only three or four rolls it's gone almost overnight, 
- U. The white tape could be used for labelling vials and other things so send abcrtit 
1-15 rolls of this too, 
—5, Cheesecloth - since the majority of our cheesecloth is used for Berlese samples 
this type isn't too good for our purposes. If we started taking large numbers 
of alcoholic specimens there might be some use for it. At present, no, 
6. Cotton - let me hold off on this item until I've had a chance to talk to the 
people who have to do most of the preparation of specimens. They'll be bafck 
here toward the end of this month, 
- 7. Nylon ord - this may have a number of uses for the people on the field trips, 
there is always a need for a piece of string or cord. Send me a roll of it 
and I'll put it on the ship on a permanent basis. 
Plastic Bags - these bags are much too flimsy to even consider getting, I'd be 
afraid to even have them laying around here for fear someone would use them 
and ruin a pack of specimens or make a real mess with some of the chemicals we 
use. 
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The Flight bags are thick enough to keep things dry for a certain period of 
tim^ and might be of value in making trips out to the offshore islands. Why 
don t you send me about 15 of them and we'll try them as clothing bags for thes 
trips. 
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