SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
August 25, 1966 
Mrs. Herbert M. Church, Jr. 
Pacific Program, Room 601W 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D.C. 20560 
Dear Jane: 
Just a short note to let you know about the shipment of two freezers full of 
frozen specimens from here on Monday, August 29. I have confirmed reservations 
as follows: PAA fit. 82U from Honolulu at 10:30 p.m. Aug 29; to TWA 108 in LA 
leaving at 10:35 a.m. Aug 30. The TWA fit arrives at Dulles at 8 p.m. on Aug 
These were the only confirmations I could get. American Airlines is not accepting 
any freight at the present time because it is still snowed under from all of the 
freight dumped on it during the strike. 
This shipment will consist mostly of rats, bird heads and as many birds as I 
can stuff in. As soon as it arrives and things get settled down could yoy please 
have Jan drop me a line regarding the amount of space that is remaining. The 
specimens being shipped this time have not even been in my freezer (which is full 
to the top). Instead they have been held for the past five weeks in the freezers in 
which they are being shipped for lack of space. Every three or four days I've had 
to go get some more dry ice. My space is still critical. If the trip returns with 
another large pile of frozen specimens I don't know what I’ll do because I simply 
don't have anymore freezer space available. 
My other half is after me to check and see if I get any per dieum for the trip 
I made back to D.C. this past spring. I’ve been so busy trying to get caught up on 
everything that it has completely slipped my mind. If I was supposed to get per dieum 
can I still collect? 
I now have something like 280 additional movements carded up for the interisland 
file (in addition to the few cards already sent to you). As soon as I go through a 
few more of the green books I'll bundle these cards up and send them to you. I would 
strongly recommend that someone back there spot chedk the green books from the earlier 
trips (contained in the 200 or so books I recently returned) to see if there are any 
movements in them that have been missed. For heavens sake please have them mark in 
the books that they have been checked against the interisland file so that no one 
else will ever have to check them again for this particular thing. 
Not too much happening at the moment - its the calm before the storm.the 
SIC trip returns tomorrow afternoon at 5 p.m. After that I expect to be as busy as 
the dickens until sometime after the leave. DICK and Joan will leave right in the 
middle of that and I know I'll sorely miss them. 
Hope all is well in DC-land 
