DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
BUREAU OF SCIENCE. 
MANILA. 
Manila, May 1, 1907. 
Major Edgar E. Mearns, 
Baguio, Benguet. 
Bear Major Mearns 
I have packed up all of your birds except the ones 
you wanted for study, the latter you will find in tin Ho. 49, 
top tray. Three of your boxes are at the end of my desk; the 
others are together behind the door. Seven of the boxes contain 
specimens and are numbered as follows: 
1. Small birds, not packed. 
2. As received; contents ? 
3. Small skins packed; oan be shipped. 
4. Various truck, shells, bones, etc.; not packed. 
5. U.S. H. M. box; small skins packed and can be shipped. 
6. Birds; should be repacked. 
7. Mammal skins? from Major White? 
I have spread and rearranged all of our collection, 
renumbered the tins, and made a new index so that anything can now 
be found with ease. 
There are 83 skins in the two lower trays of tin Ho. 49 
which you were to leave as a loan, so do not pack them up by mis¬ 
take. 
Sincerely, 
Collector. 
