SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20560 
July 16, 1966 
Mrs, Herbert M, Church, Jr, 
Pacific Program, Room 601W 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D.C. 20560 
Dear Jane: 
We are starting to get into a pinch here for freezer space. At the present time 
I am almost out of freezer space with more than 200 specimens on hand. The Leewards 
trip collected several large taxonomic series and didn’t have time to do any work 
on them before the departure of the SIC, This evening I was supposed to receive a 
freezer chest full of rat specimens from Kure Island but just learned that the plane 
is grounded on Midway with a faulty engine. The rats will probably come in tomorrow 
sometime (another Sunday ruined ), 
Would you please ask Jan to check and see how many specimens he can accomodate 
back in D,C» I would like to send as many as possible out of here — especially the 
taxonomic series because Chuck wants these (or will want them when he gets back from 
England), The freezer full of rats will also be sent to D.C. for autopsy since there 
is no one here at the present time who knows how to conduct one. Please let me know 
how many you can take back there. 
As soon as the airline strike breaks I’ll send them to you via Pan American. 
I'm afraid to send anything at the present time because they will not confirm 
(and apparently cannot) connecting flights at the present time. I’d be afraid the 
shipments would end up sitting somewhere until they thawed. I’ll send a wire when 
the specimens are shipped, 
I hadn’t given the vacation time much thought because I didn't get much of a 
vacation when the baby was born. Most of the time was spent in rewriting the bird 
banding section of the manual in addition to a lot of running around town and a lot 
of other paperwork. I don't thinnk there was one day in which I didn't get at least 
7 hours of work in* I’ll see Dr. Pyle on Monday or Tuesday and charge off about 
10 days since I'll lose it anyhow. 
Please tell Anne that the alcohol 
-^Treasury Department. It is the stuff 
whatever that is. 
we got before had to be cleared through the 
you can drink (if you have enough nerve) 
Regards, 
