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The collections made in all other branches of science by the men 
from the Bishop Museum will be the property of the Bishop Museum. Professor 
Gregory has informed me that they will try and collect duplicates of many 
things of which the Biological Survey will receive a set. This will be verjr 
acceptable, particularly &'duplicate set of plants if they can be obtained 
conveniently. In view of the collection of bird stomachs you will mat© to 
determine the food of the birds, the plants will be extremely useful. The 
same might be said of the insects. We shall, however, have no definite claim 
on any of these collections beyond what is turned over to us voluntarily 
by the museum. 
You are at liberty to arrange with Professor Gregory to write an 
introductory itinerary of the trip if he so desires to be published by the 
Bishop Museum in connection with the series of scientific reports to be made 
later by his staff. That is a matter to take up strictly with him but after 
it is taken up a written memorandum should be forwarded to me requesting 
this work to be done by you in order that it can be properly arranged here. 
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As has been decided in conference you should salt and send in flat 
skins of all of the larger birds only making up the peculiar small land 
species and possibly a few of the smaller sea birds. Owing to the difficulty 
of getting to and from the ship on these islands it will greatly facilitate 
the work to have the birds prepared in this way and will also save the time 
of you and your assistants in the field and not necessitate carrying a 
great amount of field supply such as cotton and other material. Ho attempt 
should be made to thoroughly clean the fat from the skins before they are 
salted, merely roughing off any flesh and gobs of fat so to save as much time 
as is practicable. Your experience in the field will be a sufficient guide 
as to this. . 
Upon your return to Honolulu at the completion of the bird reservation 
trip should there be time and opportunity, you are instructed to visit 
convenient localities on any of the larger Hawaiian Islands in order to learn 
the present condition of the local bird fauna, and to get specimens of such 
species as may be needed for our collections. Throughout the trip you should 
keep a careful account of the expenditures made-under each of the funds from 
which expenditures are to be made. While the' necessity for securing vouchers 
of expenditures is waived yet it will be well to secure receipts for expenses 
of any amounts wherever it can be done conveniently. 
With sincere good wishes for your success,, I remain 
