August 2, i 960 
Mr. David Bratley 
Box 518 
Washburn, Wisconsin $kS91 
Dear Davids 
I opened the letter you wrote to Chuck just on the chance that 
it was connected with the AOU Meeting. Chuck is still in Efrg l Qnti 
and will not be back until the end of next week so I am afraid 
there is nothing he can do about a reference until then. I’ll 
give him your letter with a copy of tills letter but it might be a 
good idea to tell Mr. Christenson that Dr. Ely is out of the 
country. 
Everybody here is working on the AOU paper] Keenan is doing 
slides, I’ve been tracking down banding data. Chuck sent in the 
completed paper from England and it arrived yesterday. The one 
thing that’s worrying me in your letter is that you say that 
"whether I win be at the AOU meeting for the first two days is 
difficult to say ... but will be there the last 3 days for sure 
since it is over the labor Day weekend." The meetings start 
on Monday, labor Day, and run the rest of the week as I understand 
it. Maybe you’d better check on this as we would hate to have 
you miss the meetings.* 
Hr. Humphrey expects to be at the meetings and I think 
Warren King will be there and possibly Pat Gould but nobody else 
from here except Dick Cross in will be going. Of course that could 
change between now and then and I hope that more people will be 
able to get there. 
Sincerely yours, 
(Mrs. Herbert M. Church, Jr.) 
Pacific Project 
cs Dr. Ely 
