SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
OFFICE OF 
ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
IN CHAROE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 
March 
1907. 
Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, 
Surgeon and Major, U. S. Amy, 
Manila, Philippine Islands. 
Dear Doctor Mearns: 
Your letter of August 1, 1906, 
would have "been answered earlier, but for an im¬ 
pression which had gained ground here that you 
were expected to retxxrn soon to the United States, 
From an inquiry made at the War Department, how¬ 
ever, it seems that this is not correct, and I 
need hardly say that your friends here are very 
much’ disappointed. 
The eight boxes referred to in 
your letter of August 1st were received here in 
October - one of them empty. As Doctor Richmond 
tells me that several of the smaller and most inter¬ 
esting species of birds from Mt. Malindang, men¬ 
tioned in the list which accompanied your letter, 
are not found, I am led to think that perhaps the 
(Accessions 46501; 46983; 46985), 
