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Mr. Warren B. King 
Smithsonian Party 
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Wa lkiki Station ‘ : 
Honolulu, Hawaii 9^15 
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’nin ny you for your letter with the information on the ifevell’s 
Shearwaters. We are gradually straightening out the whole mess which 
centers around specimens being sent back here wltkstffc tsuscu i -1” &uq 
^ven some without field numbers. In a few cases the date and locality 
of collection have apparently never been recorded anywhere. We now have 
only two: letfeir* s- Shearwaters without exact data. These were definitely 
collected in October by FOBSP personnel, but we can't distinguish betweer 
them. The offshore catalog my help In this problem. 
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The reason that I had not written to you concerning this problem 
was that Dr. Ely is supposed to see that parts of the BCF catalog and 
the offshore Island catalog are copied and sent back here. In case 
he has not teen able to get to this, would you please tell him that we 
have the first page of the BCF catalog (501 - 514) and the offshore 
island catalog (up through 10209 Newell’s Shearwaters and four urmumber® 
here). We need everything else in these two catalogs. With this 
information we should be able to clear up most or, hopefully, all of the 
remaining problems. 
Perhaps you or someone else could set up these two catalogs so 
that data for all future specimens are recorded in the following manner: 
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This will make future curatorial work much easier. 
Tb. e work is progressing here, but there is still an immense backlog. 
When we have the two catalogs mentioned above plus the Kure-Midway catalog 
here, it should be fairly easy to finish processing all of the birds. 
' 1 hope that your work is going well, and I’m looking forward to 
seeing you before the project ends. 
Sincerely, 1 
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