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Dr. A* Wetmore, 
Bigelow Hotel, 
Ogden, Utah,* 
Dear Dr# Seiner®t 
I a© sending herewith so;ae information on a seal- 
scientific world yacht cruise, Hr. Albert 0, Willard, Jr., 
a mighty fine looking young rasa, who is apparently sponsois- 
iag the trip, was in the office this morning, The guests 
of this trip, numbering ten, will pay 15,450 and in addition, 
there will be four scientific men who will sot pay anything, 
but will receive food, berth, and all the neeetsery expenses 
while they are connected with the host. It is Mr* Willard's 
pl*a to haw t|® scientist® on® each from the following four 
field®, Anthropology, Botany, Ecology and Geology* It is hi® 
desire to bar© one of them fro® the Field Iteeua, one from 
the American Museum of natural listoiy, mm from the Smith¬ 
sonian, and on® from the national Geographic* 1® has already 
interviewed the people of the field Museum, and they will let 
him know their decision later, and from her®, he goes to lew 
fork where he will take the proposition up with the America® 
Museum of Natural History* Apparently’, tie paying guest® will 
do a® they please. Be is planning to try to get writers, 
artists, etc*, for this group, and they will have full rights 
to anything they do. The trip is supposed to take eighteen 
month®, fh® scientific men will apparently have full rights 
to all their collections, and the only thing they will be ex¬ 
pected to do is to furnish brief daily information which will 
be broadcast from the yacht to schools throughout this country • 
Hr, Willard g-cid that he was not able to sav who was sponsoring 
this broadcast, except that it was a very prominent oil company 
interested in educational work. I asked him whether he made any 
money out of the broadcast and fee said "no*. Be makes nothing 
out of Ms paying guests, and apparently Ms tie-up with motion 
pictures is of such a nature that fee will get little if anything 
from them. Incidentally, motion pictures are supposed to be 
educational and travelogue material entirely' separated from the 
work of the scientific group. I told Mm that as near as I 
figured then he was putting up s great deal of money personally 
and he said "yes". I asked Mr. N. W* Dorsey to get information 
