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8, 1954 
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Dear Dr. -etraore; 
I nape you 
you saw some Interest 
back in Panama gettir 
• You.missed; 
around six to eight 
like it has before, 
smooth it out. 
oyed your trip on 
1ng and new birds, 
ready to go into 
£ 
a couple 
inches. 
v_> 
Orinoco. No d ou b t 
now you muat be 
Vole an country. 
The new 
of nice 
Traffic., 
snow regulations 
snows. both of them r 
‘ % not get' tied up ■ 
helped to 
Things seem to be going alon,. all.right at the Smith¬ 
sonian. Lester Cummerford. Dr. Chapin, and dr. Kirk from the 
shipping office retired. It is. rumored that Dr. Carmichael 
is ~,oing to’ ipanarna, however.I understand that the'plans have 
been changed. There is a lot of construction G oingon, such 
as the gallery in the fine arts division, addition to me 
skin room, .and Dr. Schultz is getting a new addition. The 
pneumatic hammers are raising ; o much dust all over the 
building that % doubt if it will ever L et cleaned, put 
on quite an exhibit for the regents' dinner at tne Smithsonian. 
Dr. Friedman received a grant -from tne G-Ugeniieim Fviild ”CO make 
a study of toe indicator birds from Africa. lie had quite a 
bit of"difficulty in getting the right type of ca e e to ship the 
live: birds over here by plane. 3ut I think that ;| have, worked 
| ■ v 'BKpur p..Qs e 
out something that will answer 
. We have a new man in our place but he is the - type, who 
knows more than I do already, if you know what; x mean. Mr. 
drown is getting things lined up to go out to North Dakota to 
get some accessories about the first of Marcn. To me that 
■would be about the end of the world on the first of March. 
Probably be around zero. 
You haven’t missed much by not being in Washington. 
Politics are about the same. In regard to the mosquito 
net, I looked those over that we arve amt. they are all pretty 
sorry looking, so I had Tony get a new one for you. Have wondered 
about your one.-lens.e binoculars. How efficient are . they? 
. . . . •' -'•» ■„ jjP ■■f:;v v , ; ■ v . v ' . I . • . • ' ‘ - • r * ~ , 
Velva is going into the hospital for an operation today. 
Give my kindest regards 
to Mrs. Wetmore. 
Sincerely yours. 
0 /atwif 
.«a tson M. Perrygo 
