OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 
MAY 1962 EDITION 
GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 
5010-107 
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
Memorandum 
to : Mr. Roger Clapp, Pacific Project, Division of BirdSDATE: October 1, 1965 
Through: Dr. H. A. Fehlmann jiQF* 
from : D. M. Damkaer, Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center 
subject: Shipment of Bird Stomach Contents 
As requested by your secretary (phone call September 30, 1965 ), the 
Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center is sending you the stomachs and 
the sorted contents from the eight birds listed on S0SC Invoice 471. 
There are 31 lots in this shipment. Please sign, date, and return the 
white copy of the invoice when you have checked the shipment. 
Mrs. Burch, former S0SC Supervisor for Invertebrates, had apparently 
been instructed to discard the stomachs of these birds once the contents 
were removed (see her Memo to Dr. Humphrey, December 23, 1964). The 
technicians have since not saved the stomachs, but the previously examined 
stomachs had not been discarded. Do you now want us to save these stomachs 
or are you still just interested in the contents? 
Buy US. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan 
