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would be interesting to see the Kenya Wildlife Society film; maybe it will 
show in this country some day. 
So far as I have heard, there is nothing more on importing large numbers 
of eland. The South American thing seems to be going well. The pair of 
eland that we collected and sent down are doing well in Brazil and we are 
collecting three more that have been zoo born and will send them to South 
America. After the man has had a little more experience with them, he 
may want to bring in larger mumbers. 
The wildebeest are doing great, as are your Cape buffalo and giraffes. 
We are expecting another giraffe to be born shortly. Along about the first 
week of June, we will probably have had between five and six wildebeest 
calves born. We are going to put them out on a farm that belongs to a 
wealthy lady about thirty miles from Washington, and try to start our own 
little wildebeest herd, and also the Pere David deer, 
Thank you for what you have to say about hoping my administrative 
headaches melt away. They seem to, but new ones crop up, so we always 
have headaches. 
I would ask Tony to give my remembrances to the men up in the hills and 
tell them I am looking forward to seeing them again. 
Nelson Brown and I went over all 120 rolls of film and will be sending 
you by separate cover some pictures that we extracted that have nothing to 
do with the story. They are mainly of you folks, and there are a couple 
that I will ask you to send to some other people, such as Ted Goss and 
the Harthoorns. Nelson is going to school now and seems to be enjoying 
life. I do think that the trip to Africa gave him a little maturing experi- 
ence which has been helpful to him in his work at the Geographic and in 
giving him a little more objectivity in life. 
\ I will be very interested to hear how the pit traps work and what animals 
f/ you catch in those. Please keep me informed. How about the little duiker? 
} Did you ever have one of those running around the camp for us? And also, 
| how about the cheetah, did we ever get that squared away so that you — 
\ could get us a couple of cheetahs that you could keep at your place for an 
| indefinite period of time until they were so acclimatized and so used to each 
| other that they might have a chance of breeding? | 
é Concerning the animals that we have on order from you, outside of the sek, 
| if possible we would surely like to have some prices or estimated cost on 
{ these so that we can set up a tentative schedule of payments on these and 
} make obligations of money to you. This is over and above the Geographic 
money we are holding for you. It would be most helpful for my animal 
; purchases of next year if I had some idea of what your price range was \ 
\ going to be for the animals that we have ordered from you. oe ae 
‘heard by the grapevine that a pair of bongo had gone to Basel, hick! SI 
Once again, best regards to you all. | 
Sincerely yours, 
Theodore H. Reed 
Director 
