UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
ALL CORRESPONDENCE 
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED 
TO THE SECRETARY 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington, hhSLA. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 
DIVISION OF RADIATION AND 
ORGANISMS 
March 17, 1949. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
Thanks for your letter of March 14. The Elliot Medal award 
papers have gone forward as per your instructions, and I have asked Mr. 
Deignan to fumigate the cases in your study. 
Will you please tell me where the Lesson volume is from which 
the off print of the article on Saur other a californiana was made for Mr. 
McAtee ? Mrs. Clark would like to return it. 
I am enclosing copies of two letters that you may want to do 
something about before your return. The original letters and carbon 
copies of replies have been retained here so that you may destroy the ones 
I am sending you. 
Dr 0 Fred E. Wright of the National Academy of Sciences has 
sent to the Members of the Academy, copies of the Report of the Committee 
on Revision of the Constitution, Present Constitution, and Constitution as 
recommended by Academy as Committee of the Whole November 16, 1948 
for adoption at the 1949 Annual Meeting, together with a circular letter and 
an absentee Ballot. I am sending you a copy of the circular letter and the 
absentee ballot that you may wish to turn in. If you want the report etc. 
please let me know. 
A Joint Resolution was introduced by Mr. Cannon on March 10, 
providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents, namely 
Jerome C. Hunsaker. He also introduced “A Bill” to amend the Act to 
provide for eopperation by the Smithsonian with State, educational and 
scientific organizations in the United States for continuing ethnological 
researches on the American Indians. 
Mr. Beggs has gotten a quotation from Cohens Art Supply Store 
on the cost of the 15 mats to replace those in the portrait drawings of 
Regents in the stairwell of the Smithsonian. He has a price of J$'2.„25 
net or a total of $33.75. I suppose Mr. Wilding should get other quotations 
but this seems to be a reasonable price. 
You have a questionnaire from “Biographical Research Inc.” 
This comes to you as a prominent government official, to be included in 
the 1949-1950 edition of ‘‘American Men in Government/ 1 (Formerly known 
