August 28, 
1950 
Lt. Col. Merwin E. Potter, 
Military & Air Science Department, 
The Ohio State University, 
Columbus 10, Ohio. 
Dear Colonel Potter: 
Mr. Perrygo has shown me your last letter to him, and I 
am interested to know that the Potter family is now to be 
located at Ohio State University. I hope that you find the 
work interesting and I wish you all success in it. 
Perrygo has been having a grard time with the antique 
bed and will have it in shape to send on to you before very long. 
He tells me that he was fortunate in being able to get the 
side pieces, and I saw the restoration of the missing section 
which matches very well. With the return of this bed to the 
U. S. , 1 suppo se that its cycle is complete. It is too bad that 
we do not know the history of its major travels. 
I have a weather eye on the southern horizon though it is 
certain that I shall not be able to get away from Washington until 
next February. What I hope for now, if conditions permit, 
would be a trip by helicopter out over the Serrania de Maje 
where we worked last year to see if it would be possible to 
get down for a few hours at some point on the mountain. There 
must have bean a clearing of some kind at the old radar station. 
Actually, if I could have a few hours on the ground at these 
higher elevations it would probably be all that is needed to 
give us a line on the bird life of the top levels. I already have 
a fine collection from the lower elevations. A trip of this kind 
would decide definitely whether I would find it desirable to go 
back to Chiman and make another trip for a month or so into 
the interior. The other scheme that I hope to carry forward 
would be a reconnaissance flight either by plane or by helicopter 
whichever might seem most desirable along the Caribbean coast 
