AIRMAIL 
August 5* 1964- 
Dr. Charles A. Ely 
6139 Pahukula Street 
Honolulu, Hawaii 96821 
Dear Dr. Ely: 
My sincere apologies for the letter I sent yesterday concerning 
the ticks. I had assumed these were from Sand and didn’t know Fred 
Drought some also. After reading your report, which arrived this 
morning, of course I discovered otherwise. I must say you have been 
busy all the time. 
I still have not received a letter from Dick Merrill, and nothing 
at all has come in from Sand concerning this matter. I would like to 
comment on why the CG men on Sand were possibly "uninformed''. As you 
know CG personnel on Sand are replaced periodically (one year tour). 
There has been a complete change-over of men since last year when we 
first started our work on Sand. I think we took for granted that each 
new man sort of found out what we were doing, ait undoubtedly this was 
rot the case and they actually didn’t know what to were trying to do. 
Something along the line of a presentation was hinted at while I was 
there this spring, but I didn't follow through. So maybe it is partly 
ray fault. It might have also helped if you and I had discussed our 
whole operation with Lfc, Thurman while you were down there in early 
June. We can discuss the whole matter during you visit to DC. 
Speaking of your visit, I would be delighted for you to stay at 
my apartment. You would not be inconveniencing me at all. It would 
also give us a chance to discuss all aspects of the report and otter 
matters. We could also have the otter writers over for full discussion. 
Again I would like to apologise for that letter. 
Best regards, 
A. Binion Amerson, Jr, 
Research Curator, Division of Birds 
