SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON 25. D. C. 
Sand Island 
July 31, 1963 
Marj’'anna Smellow 
Pacific Project 
Division of Birds 
Smithsonian Inst. 
Washington 25, D.C. 
AIR MAIL 
Dear Maryanna: 
The trunk arrived j’^esterday after having been sent by mistake to 
Kvjajalien. Everything was in excellent condition except the notebook. 
I expected to find copies of the HSDA and USPH permits which I asked 
you to send the first part of July. I will need the necessary permit 
numbers before I can ship the blood serum, samples on August 12. I 
would like several copies of the permits for shipping birds, ecological 
specimens and etiological agents. Anything I shdp from here has to go 
through customs, so t^'e pen,at numbers are needed before I can ship the 
serum samples. 
I hope that by the time you get this that the rest of the sm.all 
size color markers have been sent air mail. '^e have nov; finished cutting 
all of them and will finish using them, up tonight or tomorrov/ night, 
which is sooner ti an I expected. feen they are depleted we will still 
band birds becatise the terns are leaving fast. ^Ir.'iost half of the 
popiTation have already left. 
•P 
J. V o 
sending tb' 
stationary supplies* 
rail I had received and for inclrding 
Si'cerely, 
a.^i. 
A. 3. Anerson, Jr^ 
Research Curator, Pacific Project 
Division of Birds 
Smithsonian Instition 
