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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ADDRESS REPLY TO 
CHIEF, BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY, 
AND REFER TO 
BI-S 
Hawaii 
Ur. Alexander Wetmore, 
C/o Bishop Museum, 
Honolulu, T. Hawaii. 
Dear Dr. ¥7etmore: 
Tour letters of May 19 and 24 were received, and also 
your last radiogram,dated June 13,with the announcement that you 
left Honolulu June 9 and were encamped at ITihoa Island with six 
men. Receipt is also acknowledged of 11 boxes of specimens, 
which have just been unpacked and are nearly all, including the 
seals, in apparently excellent condition. It is possible that 
some of the feathers may slip on the heads of a few of the 
larger birds, which, as you have indicated, had to be packed 
before they were in proper condition. 
The birds are a fine lot, and I am very glad to learn 
that the extermination of the rabbits appears to have been 
complete, and that the whole Expedition to date is being so 
successfully handled. 
Mr. Reno has returned and has reported for duty. I was 
also glad to know that in addition to handling the rabbit 
destruction work very efficiently, Mr. Reno was interested in 
other objects of the expedition and found time to prepare so 
many specimens. 
I am particularly pleased at the way you have handled 
the matter of providing for a new growth of vegetation on the 
island, and in accordance with your suggestion will write to 
Mr. C. 3. Judd, Executive Officer of the Board of Commissioners 
* of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, thanking him for his 
kindness and cooperation in furnishing seed. I shall also write 
to Mr. Dickey, as you have suggested, requesting him to forward 
the set of film for the Biological Survey to you at Honolulu, 
where at the close of the trip you can arrange an exhibition for 
the officers and men of the Tanager, staff of the Bishop Museum, 
and others interested. 
BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
June 18, 1923. 
