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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTROPHYS1CAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
ALL CORRESPONDENCE 
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED 
TO THE SECRETARY 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 
DIVISION OF RADIATION AND 
ORGANISMS 
April 7, 1947 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
e/o Commanding Officer, 
AAF Auxiliary Airfield, 
Jaque, R. de P. 
Via Albrook Field, C. 2. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
There are a few items which I feel should be called to your attention, 
and they are as follows: 
(1) Our item 2 in letter of April 2, 1947 probably left you somewhat 
confused. Owing to our rush to get the letter off, it was not checked carefully 
enough. The figures should read: "from $1,937,000 to $2,037,000." 
(2) I just called Duvall of the Committee regarding the date of our hearing, 
and he said that April 29 was very close figuring. At first he said it would be 
on that afternoon or the day before or the day afterward. Then he said it 
couldn't be before the 29th as they had"promised Dr. Wetmore it wouldn't be 
before the 29th." He said that as far as they could see now, it would be the 
afternoon of the 29th or the 30th. I had rather hoped that I could send you notice 
of a few days' postponement, but this appears out of the question. 
(3) The attached clipping shows the danger of leaving town and being unable 
to defend yourself against these so-called honors. 
(4) The Sunday Post also has an article on our large number of high 
school visitors. One of the youngsters was interviewed, and I quote: "Like most 
of the other male students he picked the Smithsonian Institution as the most 
interesting of the many places he had seen." 
(5) We have been inundated with questionnaires from the President's 
Scientific Research Committee. It is a job and until we get in our contributions, 
which will be about the 17th of April, it will almost require full time of our 
staff from curators on up. This Committee, headed by Steelman, is made up of 
the heads of the agencies spending most for research. I was annoyed that the 
Federal Loan Administrator was included and the Secretary of the Smithsonian was not. 
Dr. Bush is on the Committee. One of their technical staff was down to discuss 
the matter with us; and while it is going to mean a great amount of work, I think 
it is going to make a point that we are understaffed on research matters. They 
are insisting on rather fine breakdowns in projects and this will give us an 
opportunity to demonstrate that we have projects with less than one man attached 
to them. 
