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Still another problem is the fact that we have not received our 
money for this year yet. We have been operating on a contigency 
fund since last July and I still have congressional hearings to 
go through on our appropriations. 
All of this puts me in a real bind since it will probably be 
December before I can get there. This would be in the middle 
of your Christmas holidays to say nothing of the fact that I 
have my son and daughter who will be coming home from college 
for the holidays and Elizabeth would be most unhappy at my being 
away at that time. Unfortunately, I do not just want to come 
ever and get my picture taken walking up the mountain and back 
Gown again. I want to get up there and get those naked mole 
rats, go to the coast and do some fishing with you, and in 
general enjoy life a little bit. 
PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR ESTIMATED TIME TO BRING THE BONGO DOWN. 
IT MAY BE THAT I WILL HAVE TO SEND JOHN EISENBERG OVER. 
In anticipation that I may be able to get over, I have been jogging 
a mile every day trying to lose some weight but it does not seem 
to help. 
I am sure we can get a picture of a bongo in the wild even if we 
have to walk through a park next door. 
f am instructing the fiscal office of the Smithsonian to forward 
to your bank in New York $3,000. We will notify you as soon as 
this has been done. 
John Perry, the assistant director of the NZP,will be leaving on 
November 15 to attend the IUCN conference in New Delhi, India. 
We would be most appreciative if you could help him make his few 
days in Kenya productive. He and his wife, Jane, will arrive in 
Nairobi November 18 at 7:00 p.m. If you could arrange for them 
to spend the night at your place on their arrival, and on the 18th 
help him rent a landover and go to Kee Korok Lodge, this would 
be most appreciated. Please make reservations for them for two 
nights. They will spend Thursday at Mara Masai Reserve and come 
back on Priday; spend Friday night at your compound and get out 
to see Nairobi National Park Reserve and on Saturday, November 22, 
leave for Bombay at 8:00 p.m. 
Le me hear from you as soon as possible. Love to all. 
Sincerely yours, 
Theodore H. Reed, D.V.M. 
Director 
