UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTRO PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washinyto/i 2A r D.C. 
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SERVICE 
CANAL ZONE BIOLOGICAL AREA 
March 9, 1949. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
This morning’s mail brings the enclosed second votes from Dr. Parr 
and Dr. Sturtevant, and I am sending them on to you immediately. This is prompt 
action! 
I am enclosing also galley proof of your article to be published in the 
Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences which Mr. Oehser would like to 
have you check and return. He said he would check it with the manuscript. 
You have a letter from Mr. Cannon this morning which reads as follows! 
“The meeting yesterday was admirably arranged and was one of the most unique 
and most enjoyable occasions of its kind I have ever attended. Was greatly sur¬ 
prised when I got home to note the lateness of the hour. The program was so un¬ 
usual and so interesting that 1 completely overlooked the passage of time. Deeply 
grateful to you for your kindness in favoring me with a copy of Paul Oehser’s new 
book “Sons of Science’ and am especially honored to have an autographed copy.!’ 
Miss Gladys M. Kenner writes “Many thanks for the Review of Bird 
Display and Behaviour. I wish you a pleasant trip to the South.” 
You also have a note from Miss Krieg who is very much pleased to have 
the copy of Oehser’s book with your compliments. 
A note from Mr. Hemming and a mimeograph copy of the correspondence 
with you and other specialists at the Smithsonian Institution has been circulated 
by him for the information of the members of the International Commission on 
Zoological Nomenclature and of the zoologists who acted as alternate members of 
the Commission at its session of meetings held in Paris last July. I have made 
acknowledgment of it in your absence. 
Mr. Gibbs and “Patty” have sent you a note from Big Bend National Park, 
Marathon, Texas,, and I have told them that you are in Panama, “Patty” is in¬ 
terested in stamps so I sent her a few that I had on hand, I expect she would be 
delighted if she had a card from you from Panama! ! 
Mr 0 Domeiig a Japanese industrialist, who is visiting the United States 
called on you with a letter of introduction from Mr. Joe Robinson. He was sorry 
to miss seeing you. Mr. Robinson wanted to put him up at the Cosmos Club so I 
turned him over to Mr c Graf, who has taken care of his wants. 
The past three days have been hectic ones. Everything has been moved 
out of the Regent’s Room and your two offices 0 The carpenters are busy hammering 
and drilling and the plasters are chipping away and pointing up the walls. Everything 
