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Dr. W, M. Mann, 
national Zoological Park, 
Fashiigpon, D.C. 
dy ae&r 
Many thanks for yours of Jan. 4th. received yesteruay, 
tne ring letter h not turns - >ut I . very glad to hear 
of the possible forward move at your and. 
There is a shooting party.of three guns leaving here 
for Ifeirobi about April let. they have already engaged a white 
hunter etc., I am trying to get them interested -rather successfully 
I think - in getting the young rhino. If tney agree I will let you 
know for they would require a. letter to the Kenya Game Dept, 
asking for a special permit to allow them to hunt female animals 
accompanied by young for an accredited zoological park. 
Then'there is-a Bu ey st .snt (gx uate) taking 
a course in herpetology with Barbour who is willing to pay his own 
expenses if he may accompany me on the trip, by that I understand 
he will find his own fare out and back and supply his own camp 
equipment. He was down at the Barro Colorado laboratory in Panama 
last summer and Dr. Barbour agrees with me in thinking that he 
would p highly con iial companion. His name is A ms and he 
gave a lecture on recent growth in knowledge relating to tsetse and 
the spread of sleeping sickness. It is this subject that attracts 
him to Africa and if possible he would like to visits a tsetse 
area - that is no difficulty 
ilrdly an application has on made for a antial 
grant from a Harvard fund for tue expedition. The result will not 
be known till Feb. loth, but if received it would place us beyond 
requiring co-oper-.xion from Michigan. Do you approve of the trip 
being called the Smithsonian-Harvarl East African Expedition ? That 
is the title I should prefer. I hope to make a lot of field notes 
and if desired I would be only too glad fox the Smithsonian to 
publish ail the results, I think T.B. .would be willing as the l.C.Z. 
has all the • ^.ioations on h .id that they can t okl t present I 
believe. 
The only necessity for the London Zoo to Go¬ 
to oil the wheels and,if the necessity arrives,to handle 
trans-shipment. 
operate is 
stuff in 
I gather from your para. 3 that to some extent you are 
in hopes of reverting to the first idea of a more extensive trip, 
it is difficult for me to give the information suggested by your 
para 4 however without knowing more definitely what funds would be 
liable and rhether you 1 intended coming er etc. 
Probably you said someThing along these lines in the letter which. 
you dropped but which nobody has forwarded. If you can let me know 
about this I would draw up more detailed plans as I did for the 
M.C.Z. with regard to the other mooted expedition, these are still 
here. 
is another point on which I would like information, 
of ocean freights about which I am singularly • 
you have some data on which you could base a 
to the cost of shipping one rhino on a six weeks 
two months). Have you considered the advisability 
Aden to an American line of steamers which 
Friedmann tells me call there at times"? • 1 '■ 
There 
this is the matter 
ignorant. Probably 
useful estimate as 
voyage (better say 
of transhipping at 
Sincerel]/ - yours. 
