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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
BUREAU OF AM ERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
ASTRO PHYSICAL OBSERVATORY 
NATIONAL AIR MUSEUM 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
W/rs/iiur/ton 2.5, 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 
February 7, 1950. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
You have a letter from A. C. Bent this morning informing 
you that he has suffered a partial paralysis of the left side due to 
arterial trouble which is likely to keep him in bed for some time. 
In the meantime he is unable to do work in order to avoid more 
serious cerebral hemorrhage. He states that he is returning the 
final proofs for the next book and asks that someone read them. He 
also asks that Mr. Lincoln be informed not to send him any more 
distribution sheets and to have Miss Cooke stop work at present. I 
have taken the matter up with Mr. Oehser and he suggests that Miss 
Cooke continue her work at least until this volume is completed 
since she is so slow anyway and the material should be ready by June. 
I have advised Mr. Lincoln but not Miss Cooke. Mr. Bent sent Miss 
Cooke $80.00 on December 15. I have not acknowledged Mr. Bent’s 
letter hoping this letter would reach you before you left for the field 
so that you may tell me your wishes in the matter. 
Mr. Phelps writes that he expects to arrive in New York on 
April 3, and will visit Washington before he leaves for Sweden. He 
has found another specimen of Seiurus noveboracensis similar in color 
of upper parts to his specimen from Paria Peninsula which you 
identified as probably pertaining to the possible new race with darker f 
backs. It is from the Perija mountains in the Colegio La Salle 
collection in Caracas. The skin is poor. 
Mr. Alfred Gross has secured reservation on the S. S.. 
“ Jutlandia” leaving New York on May 26th, arriving at Copenhagen on 
June 6. He had no success in obtaining passage on the S. S. “Stockholm.” 
Mr. Gross expects to go to Sweden as a representative of the U. S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service and has chosen as his subject “The Herring 
Gull-Cormorant Control.” He asks that you remember him to Zetek. 
He would alsb be pleased to hear whether or not you see his friends 
Myiobius, Hick s Seedeater and Noble Flycatcher! 
A letter from Dr. Hinkley reminds you that you have not sent in 
a statement of your expenses for the Annual Meeting of the Research 
Corporation held in January. I have advised him that the letter reached 
the office after your departure for Panama and that I would bring the 
matter to your attention at the first opportunity. I shall be glad to send 
it in if you will tell me where you put your little book! I suppose it can 
wait though until your return. 
