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Health liepartmoat, 
foie University, 
Mew Haven* Oeanectieui, 
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X should have written you "before this, hut have mi ted until 
the details of the Kamiian Island, expedition were 
expedition itself definitely provided for* 
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Ton will see by the accompaaylag carbon of ray letter 
that the decretory of the llavy has approv©& the detail ol 
Murphy 
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at the itinerary and other details 
the expedition are to be worked out per®anally by the commandant of the 
awal station at Pearl Harbor* setmore will have two assistants from th 
United States and X hope will be able to utilize the assistance of one o: 
more men from Honolulu, so that he can secure a large collection* as 1 
stated la ray letter to ifarphy ©very effort will be made to fill, so far 
as practicable, the set desired for the reserved series of birds for the 
American Jfaseua, and the additional specimens listed, so far as can be 
done without handioapfiisg 1 the needs of securing a proper representation 
Dor our collection 
There is a bare possibility that a few sped one may 
go to another Institution, should it pay the salary of one of ,etraore’s 
assistants. X will let you know about this, and if this is the case, the 
representation going there will be cooperatively insignificant in numbers 
and will have no practical bearing on the set of specimens we will obtain 
for you* 
I ara sending you herewith also 
carbon copy of ray instructions to 
iVetraore, so that you will have in mind what we ure going to do* four 
specimens and those of our collection will com© to Washington together 
and the uiviaioa 
aad© here 
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SCtraore and X have figured out the cost of the expedition inoiudini 
lories and expenses and find th.it it will somewhat exceed C6,000* 2tis 
is considerably more than we expected to begin with and will crowd us to 
take oare of, but we desire to do the work in a satisfactory way and to 
have assistants enough to secure the desire^ series of bird 
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While your cattribution cover 
penditure, it is a very important element in 
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the total ex- 
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the cost 
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