In a telephone conversation with Senator Hill, Mr. 
Daveron's relations with the Institution were explained to 
him in detail. He was told that his letter appeared to be 
all right and he said he would send it on. I told him that 
from the only letter of Mr. Daveron’s which I had the 
opportunity of examining, it appeared that he was quite 
abrupt at times and that possibly this had some effect on 
his relations with the Embassy. Senator Hill seemed to 
appreciate the situation. 
On the request of Mr. Perrygo, we sent f60.00 to him 
in Huntington, West Virginia. 
Mr. Schroeder of the San Diego Zoo wired that one of 
their male elephant seals died. We told hi m we would like 
to have the skeleton and genitalia, and he wired two days 
ago indicating that the skeleton was going forward to us 
freight collect. Knowing your own interest in such specimens, 
I feel that we have been most fortunate. The only way we 
would possibly get such material cheaper would be to have one 
die in the Zoo. Also the principal portion of the expendi¬ 
ture connected with this material will be freight. ‘V 
Mr. Setzler left for New York and Boston this morning. 
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Everything is going very nicely. We had heavy frosts 
on the 26th and 27th, but it now seems to be warming up. 
Yours very truly. 
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