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DIRECTOR'S OFFICE - NZP 
Dr. Theodore H. Reed, | AUG 17 1988 
Director, 
National Zoological Park, | RECEIVED 
Washinton D.C. 20009 — : 
4th August 1968 
Dear Ted: 
Thank you very much for your letter and for placing $7000 
in the Chartered Bank, and also for enclosing with your letter 
the copies of your statements etc. for the fiscal officer, 
which I think you have worked out very well indeed, 
I see no reason why Nelson Brown should not take photographs 
with a treadle at night and I am sure a suitable location could 
be found when he arrives. I am doubtful whether they would 
permit this to be done in the National Park itself. However, 
I will leave the question of the Park until a friend of ours, 
Ted Goss, comes up to Nairobi to take over the wardenship of 
the Nairobi National Park. 
Very interested in the slide that you enclosed. 
Tony and Mike are away on another recce and we don't expect 
them back before the beginning of next week, by which time I hope 
Tony will have been able to decide on the site where he intends 
to make traps. He is having a certain amount of difficulty in 
selecting the best area for us to use. 
Once the camp site is selected we shall send up a larger 
team to erect the traps and necessary pens. We would then like 
to vacate the area for at least three weeks to allow the animals 
to recover from any disturbance that we have made during the 
building operations. We then plan to site the camp some distance 
away from the catching area and then will approach the actual 
cetching area in small units on foot. 
in a previous letter I suggested that you should not come 
before September 20th at the earliest and in view of the fact 
that Tony has had to make another recce before being able to 
decide on his operation area, I think it would be wise for you 
not to arrive here before the beginning of October. We would 
then be at the beginning of operations. W& have allowed a total 
period of six months for the catching of three, but we might be 
very ltteky and catch one during the first month that you were 
here, but I don't see that there would be anything of interest 
to watch from your point of view before the beginning of October 
