SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20560 
July 15, 1966 
Mrs. Herbert M. Church, Jr. 
Pacific Program, Room 601W 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Jane: 
I just checked out all of your prices and find to my surprise that most are 
considerably lower than the ones you have been paying. I called the people who 
handle these things and was told that they charge a nominal 22^5 per pound to bring 
these items in ” deliver in about lU days. The 
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Honolulu Price 
prices quoted are as follows: (eJfo iht /?/&(* /* a. 
Your Price 
Yale Needles, l¥», 21 Ga $37,35 per 1000 
$37.35 per 1000 
810S Syringes, lOcc $8 per 100 in lots 
$7.20 per 100 in lots 
of 1000 
of 1000 
$19.80 per 2U0 (or 
|$99.00 per 1200) 
$6U*00 per 1000 
$17.U6 per 2U0 (or 
$87.33 per 1200) 
Vacutainers, lOcc 
$67.50 per 1000 
Vacutainer needles 
$3*87 per gross in 
lots of 10 gross 
$3*17 per gross in 
lots of 10 gross. 
Dispopettes 
As you can see the prices on everything but the vacutainer needles are either 
the same or considerably below those you have been paying. In view of this could 
you please arrange for the purchase order to be sent out here to the following 
address: 
Van Waters and Rogers, Inc# 
313 Karaakee Street 
Honolulu, Hawaii 9681 I 4 . 
Phone: 50U-U31 
The Van Waters and Rogers sales representative I have been dealing with is 
Mr. Richard Ekimoto # I might add that in my previous dealings with this compaay 
we have had excellent service and cooperation. 
Glad to hear the gear ordered is either ordered or on the way. They keep 
accelerating things out here so that you can’t plan very long ahead. Everytime 
I turn around we are running out of something else. 
I have great piles of banding records here and had been counting on sending them 
back with Dayle Husted but he slipped away from me. Some of these records came through 
here in real rotten shape (incomplete and done wrong) so I have been busily tinkering 
with them to get them in as good order as possible before saddling you folks with them. 
The only thing I am now having any problems with is the SIC trip that Max went on — 
there are several strings that were really fouled up and several strings were apparently 
completely lost. I have been through the books several times and found a few of the 
