UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
ADDRESS REPLY TO 
CHIEF, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
AND REFER TO 
August 7, 1923. 
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Dr, Alexander Wetmore, 
Care Bishop Museum, 
Honolulu, T. H. 
Dear Wetmore: 
Your letters of July 18 and 19, from Johnston Island, have been 
received and I am very glad to have the information they contain. I 
look forward with keen interest to your return and to hear all about 
the splendid trips you have been making. 
It is fine that you have come to a definite and satisfactory 
understanding with Doctor Gregory concerning the matter of publications. 
I was highly pleased to get your wireless reoently announcing 
your arrival on Wake Island and the capture of a land rail, which I 
assume is a new species. I hope you may get other fine things there. 
Your sailing on August 25 for home will be perfectly satis¬ 
factory, The matter of the boat to take is, of course, for your own 
decision. 
If it is possible to avoid going on the trip to investigate the 
goat situation, I think it will be well for you to do so; but if the 
people in the Agricultural Department there are at all insistent, of 
course, it will be better to carry out the program. At the same 
time, I believe that we can be practically as helpful to them through 
correspondence as through a flying visit to the goat country, since 
they should be intelligent enough to carry out general instructions to 
meet the conditions. 
The matter of bringing back the tent you have is one which 
should be decided by you. If you bring it back I would suggest that 
you send it to Mr. D. A* Gilchrist, Phoenix, Arizona, and at the same 
time drop him a line. Box 765, so that he will be notified and can get 
it to place in official storage and for use as he may need it. 
I hope that the films from Dickey will reach you in time so you 
can show them at Honolulu. He wrote me the other day that he was 
planning to send them for you to receive them before leaving the islands. 
Chief of Bureau. 
