ZOOLOGXSCH MUSEUM 
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM 
Amsterdam, 18 August 1966 
PLANTAGE MIDDENLAAN 53 
AMSTERDAM-C. 
TELEFOON 94 7555* 
Mr. Patrick J.Gould, 
Smithsonian Institution- 
United States National Museum, 
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, 
Washington 25 D.C. 
U.S.A. 
Dear Mr. Gould, 
It was a pleasure for me to meet you at our museum and I was 
glad that we had a few specimens of interest to you, I am now 
mailing them separately and I trust you will receive them in due 
course. The loan receipt is being sent herewith. 
rrof. Voous would be very much interested in looking at your 
paper on the distribution of Pterodroma incerta . He had to deliver 
a lecture at the same time you read yours, so he is not familiar 
with the subject. He cannot give his opinion beforehand as you 
wil_L understand, out he is much in favour of papers on seabirds 
for Ardea. 
showed me a short note on night feeding by Sterna fuscata 
® ,-tpf f i nus pacifi c us . In Ardea short "Hotes on Sea Birds" are 
published under that heading in the December-issue. You will 
remember that another instance of night-feeding in Sooty Tern 
was reported recently as a bote on Sea Birds. But perhaps you 
have.alreaay submitted it for publication in another journal. 
Did you receive a letter from Mr. Michael Walters concerning 
the formation of an unofficial "Petrel Group". Mr. Walters is 
very partial to seabird research but as he is not a biologist 
by profession he has no opportunities for active biological re¬ 
search himself. I can quite understand his desire to remain in¬ 
formed about seabird studies but I feel that it is not justified 
to form just another group. I have answered Mr. Walters to that 
an< ^ suggested he should try and make a literature study 
records of the different species of petrels and shear¬ 
waters. x-erhaps a bibliography of Procellariiformes would be 
However in my opinion he should contact Dr. Bo4turne 
and ask him what would be the best way of devoting his energy 
to petrels and shearwatwrs. " ° ° 
Separately I am sending you a few reprints. Please remember 
me to Dr.Watson. 
Kindest regards 
yours sincerely 
