September 18, 1964 
Lt. (JG) David Worth 
U. S. Coast Guard LORAN Station 
Wavy 3080 F, P. 0, 
San Francisco, Calif. 
Dear Dave: 
On my way home from Kure I stopped at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu 
as I told you I would and inquired about references on spiders In Hawaii. 
It was disappointing to learn that there was nothing available so at that 
point I intended to write to a leading authority on this group at the 
American Museum of natural History in Hew York and see what he could 
offer. 
A short time ago a letter arrived from the Bishop Museum containing 
a reprint of a paper on the insects and closely related forms of Kure. 
This paper is enclosed with the spiders indicated in red. Since this 
list is of little help to anyone but a trained expert, Mr. Bryan of the 
Bishop Museum has offered to send you some brief descriptions of the 
species known to occur on Kure. This should enable you to identify at 
least the most distinctive and common types. 
It would be very helpful to the Smithsonian and also to the 
Bishop Museum if you would collect a few representatives of all of the 
kinds of spiders found on Kure. Bill Wirtz would probably be glad to 
provide you with the vial% alcohol, labels and forceps necessary for 
collecting. The information on each label should be: locality, date, 
your name, and habitat, for example, type of plant (Bill could help you 
here also), old boards, etc* Any notes that you might take on the 
feabltr of the spiders on Kure would probably be of interest also since 
practically nothing has been published concerning them. 
I certainly hope that this informat lean will be of some interest and 
that you will be able to follow up an some of it. It should be possible 
to carry on some very interesting work during your stay an Kure. 
I also hope that everything is 
I will hear from you in the future. 
Kure and that 
Sincerely yours. 
Robert A. Sundell 
Research Curator 
Pacific Project 
Division of Birds 
