SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 
March 21, 195? 
AIR MAIL 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore 
c/o Dr. C. B. Koford 
Canal Zone Biological Area 
Drawer C 
Balboa, Panama Canal Zone 
Dear Wetmore: 
In your letter of February 20 you suggested that it might be 
desirable for me to check with Oehser relative to the status of page 
proof of the Check-list. I may say that I now have all the page 
proofs including the hypothetical list. This totals 650 pages, and 
I have now finished going over a little more than half of this, 
checking it against the corrected galley proofs. This chore will 
be finished before you return, so that you will not have to bother 
with it. I assume that Oehser will also go over the page proofs 
after I return them to him. 
The printers have done a very good job indeed in catching all 
the corrections. There have been very few things that need further 
changing. 
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I had a very interesting and pleasant two weeks in California, 
where the various lectures seemed to be well received. I was in 
Berkeley just for one week f and^I had one lecture there, but it gave 
me a chance to talk with Alden and some of the others and to see 
what was going on there. On the way back from California I took a 
week off in Arizona and saw a good deal of that State. I also 
visited Allan Phillips and Joe Marshall in Tucson, and had some 
interesting discussions with them. Phillips is now planning 
to move to Mexico City and will store his collection, which amounts 
to about 10,000 birds, at the Instituto de Biologia. He told me 
that he has no plans for giving his collection to that institution, 
but that when and if he ever gets though with it he thought that if 
he could still afford to give it away he would think first of the 
national Museum. 
With best regards to both of you, 
Sincerely yours. 
Herbert Friedmann 
Curator, Division of Birds 
