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TDr mor 0, Balboa, 0.2 
December 19, 1955 
Kiss Helen Ruth Peck 
c/c Harry L. Peek 
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ly dear Kiss Pecks 
I have been engaged for several years in a special study of 
the birds of Panamd. At the end of October, 1 met your professor# 
Dr. Thomas Howell, at the mesiiags of the American Grniiho legists* 
Union and when he learned that I tms coning to Panaris, again, he 
told rm of your interest in birds mi 
mm spec teens for him from foaos£* He asked is© also to let you 
. etsore and 1 cm 
W<S will be here in and around the Canal Zone until the end of 
this month, and then I have plans to Spcn month of January on 
islands off the coast of Yeragues. \fe will be back here the first 
reek in February and then plan to spend the rest of that month in 
eastern Chiriqui. 
If I y be of help to you in any way, I shall be very happy 
to hear from you* 1 am sure that Tones! is an interesting place 
and it iS' cm® that I look forward to visiting, perhaps next year• 
I have been down along the coast as far as Pimta Hale b t have not 
e farther over in- the Asuera Peninsula* 
With best wishes, I am, 
% " , ; \ ^ f < .... 
Sincerely yours, 
A. Wetmore 
Research Associate 
