UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTRO PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Washington 25, D. C. 
VS. A. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
NATIONAL COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS 
FREER GALLERY OF ART 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE SERVICE 
CANAL ZONE BIOLOGICAL AREA 
March 12, 1948. 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, <|L 
Parita, Herrera, 
Republic of Panama. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
The Congressional Record gives the information that the Senate Committee 
waJMtagking up the bill for Independent Offices on Wednesday, so I am looking 
foword as to what they did to us. The radio announced the other night 
that %hey had cut out all of the President's Emergency Fund, but the paper the 
said the y only taken out $500,000 and had left $200,000 in for 
White House assistants. This definitely answers my question as to whether 
any of the Interdepartmental Committee on Research and Development could be 
financed from the President's Fund. The plans are now under way for a meeting 
the early part of next week at the White House. I understand this will be 
very brief. Tom Nolan reported to me yesterday that he had replies from 
four of the agencies — War, Agriculture, Social Security and Smithsonian. He 
is planning to leave Thursday of next week and will not return until the 11th 
so he and you will arrive at about the same time. He said he was writing you 
a a letter about various items, so I will not go into them here. 
i Yesterday Congressman And®*sen of Minnesota was at the Museum to examine 
^ the replica of the Kensington stone. Andrews had done a very fine job on it 
''S and the Congressman was greatly pleased. A few pictures were taken, and the 
3 stone goes on exhibit today. I suggested that it would be of interest to 
f w many of our visitors if a small sketched map could be put in the case, showing 
w , the spot where it was found. This, of course, would please the Alexandrians, 
t 'a I told the Congressman my story about the Jefferson desk and used it to make 
S 4 the point that it would be advantageous to the Alexandrians to have the 
’ .3 or ^Si 1 ial here, since this very act would make the Kensington stone a subject 
°f national interest rathern than local interest and that they themselves 
*N would gain much publicity from it. I also pointed out that it was safer here 
5 and that more people would see it. 
A The Federation of Scientists is planning a mass meeting to protest the 
'v Condon case, and they want to hold it in the Museum. Fortunately the regents 
^ v have specif ically pwsrhibited the use of the auditorium on matters of dis- 
cussions in Congress so I was able to turn them down. 
V 
I am sending you a clipping which will enable you to adjust your Washington 
timetable to the proper season of the year* I have seen more gulls on the Mall 
this year than!in any previous spring 
kg 
I am also enclosing a color card showing the type of paint that is 
being used m the files room. This is the same color that was first used in 
tb* otaoe Department under Stettinius and has since been used in other agencies. 
