Drawer C*. Balboa, Canal Zone 
January 14, 1957 
Mr. Paul ftehser 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington 25, D.C. 
Dear Pauls 
Our journey down was rapid and peaceful and I now feel fully 
established again in Panama, The cold that was with me for the past 
three weeks in Washington has practically gone, thanks to the pleasant 
warm air here. It is good to sit here in shirtsleeves with a breeze 
blowing through the windows and with a palm, a breadfruit and a beauti¬ 
ful clump of tall bamboos within range of my eyes as I dictate this 
letter. 
I fully appreciate the amount of work that I left for you in con¬ 
nection with the galley proofs of the check-list and am writing to 
male© a suggestion that I lope may be practicable to lessen this burden, 
that is, wherever you can, to utilise my corrected proofs for the 
master set to go to the printer instead of transferring all of the cor¬ 
rections. I hope that we can get behind theprinter so that he will 
move along with the page proofs as the task is one that 1 must complete 
in or -to get on with some other work, I am getting a terrible repu¬ 
tation in various quarters for not completing research taste to which 
I am committed. 
tie missed Graf and Kellogg by a few hours, but on the other hand 
have seen Merle Duesing of the Milwaukee Museum who is here to mate a 
Jungle movie on Barro Colorado Island. Also Miss Johnston of the Bureau 
of Entomology and giant Quarantine staff is here in the Tivoli Hotel. 
Our field outfit arrived with everything apparently in good condi¬ 
tion* I expect to make a short trip by bush plane tomorrow morning to 
an area on the edge of the San Bias;Indian reservation where I plan to 
work. In order to prospect for a suitable location. The plane is to 
leave me at an old fighter strip and then come back the following mornir 
to pick me \*p. 
I hope that the annual meeting at the Club will not increase the 
membership limit. 
With best regards. 
Sincerely yours, 
A. Wetmore 
