SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON 25. D. C. 
Sand Island 
August 12, 19^3 
Airmail 
Krs. I-aryanna Smellow 
Pacific Project 
Division of Birds 
Smithsonian Institution 
VJashington 25, D.C. 
Dear Marvanna; 
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deceived your letters of Ai’g^:st 2 and Augu.st 6 on Saturday (lOth). 
The August 2 pd one must have gotten lost, deceived the Aug 5th one 
on the 8th. ■‘'his is really a r'^cord—3 letters in 5 days. 
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he proposed plan of keeping Ken Aizerman and Pat E]i5ott ^ere 
y^t-'l +he Ath of Sept, is not possible due to a space problem. 
Lt. Hayes desires that they leave at this tinie considering his original 
statement of 2 men indefinately or up to 6 men for 2 weeks. He had 
t^oumht t^^at a 10 "an construction crew was coTrfnm Vere this week and 
had rade Tlans for t>eF to leave on tonights flight. st received 
a ressage that they would not be in this week, but since arrangements 
have been made and due to the above reasons, he feels ^^en and Fat 
should leave now. 
f V ' r^b Augu st 1B • 
Also the inaiorit 3 ^ of the Sootj’- Terns 
have left and the TAG is suppose to be headed back to port and the 
big push to get as many birds banded as possible should be over for 
the time being. I hope that this does not cause to much of a problem, 
but I told 7 /ou this might happen. I have told Ken to call you when 
he reaches Honolulu for instructions. I am also sending a telegram. 
I asked you v/hat you might vr-nt them to do if this occured, but you 
gave no reply. 
In order that the tv/o parties will overlap, there are several pos- 
ibilities. As you now know from Hen Hilz’ letter, he desires to stop 
v;ork on the 6th of September. . One plan; Kgn Wilz and I v.’ill leave 
here as planned on the 29th of Aug. Send Larr^’- Huber here on the 28th. 
Be wil]. get here about lOami and v/c won't leave until the next night. 
This v/ill give us almost 2 days to brief him on the siti-'aticn. Then let 
Bob hcParla’^e come later and 'oir Huber. A other plan; Ken ’::as agreed 
to stay here until the 2nd or 5th of September in oixier to overlap if 
Tarry and Dob can't make it earlier. The only probler:. v.nth this is 
that v.fe have already made flight reservations to leave on the 29th. In 
order that we get away on a part'cular date, flight reservations have 
to be made \;ell i advance. Let m.e know by telegrar: v/hat is 
desired, and if men is to stay longer, also indicate exactly v;hen Bob 
