W. H. Phelps 
APARTADO 2009 
CARACAS 
March 9, 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
c/o Dr.Armando Dugand, Bogota. 
Dear Dr. Wetmore: 
I am back in Caracas by plane 
for a week-end with Phelps, returning tomorrow 
to join my collectors for the San Camilo forest 
trip. We have finished with aTsmo Tama region having 
collected from 4 stations covering from 1100 to 
3400 meters. We have about a thousand skins and 
five weeks were devoted to tlis(5 collectors). So 
I have givem Tama a more intensive treatment than 
Dr.Osgood was able to do and I hope there will be 
items of interest in the collection. We hunted the 
top of the Paramo for 4 days and the specimens were 
from 3275 meters. 
On my arrival here I found your letter of 
Feb,3rd. It is fine that you intend to sail from 
Curazao on Grace Line. That will bring you to 
Laguayra early on a Thursday, and you sail again 
(for Pbo.Cabello and Bermuda) next day at 12M. That 
will give you a day and night in Caracas. I shall 
surely be back by that time and will meet you in 
La Guayra and I trust I can have you as my guest at 
my house during your 24 hour stay. But you must 
keep me posted as to date of your arrival in La 
Guayra, so you should wire, or airmail me, from 
Maracaibo on your arrival there. I hope Mrs.Phelps 
will be here also but she may have left for a visit 
to her brother in California. With my best wishes 
and trusting to ha* 
in May, I am, 
