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All in all. everything went very well Now all we have to do is get the 
animals. 
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I thought I would review with you the grant application and explain a 
little bit what it means. The first page is routine. The second page is 
the budgeting, which was a thing 1 dreamed up simply because they 
apparently wanted tc have a budget, and we don't have to stick with it. 
Also I will have scme animal money from my appropriation which I can add 
to itif necessary. This will pay for my transportation to Africa for the 
period of time that I will join you. The statement about $590 a month 
for three months for your professional services and one month at $4099 
sounds rather arbitrary. I explained to the committee that this is arbitrary 
because I do not know how much time you would spend in the first three 
months getting ready for the final catch, and this was accepted. 
In item 3, paragraph B, Mrs. Morgan as assistant treasurer of the 
Smithsonian Institution will receive the money and transmit it to you. We 
will have to work out a schedule of payments to you. Let me know what |<” 
your idea on this would be and I will get together with Mrs. Morgan and } 
find out how this is usually handled. 
Paragraph 4, which is a plan of research, in the second line state*: 
"These studies will define the habits, movement patterns, and trails used 
by the antelopes." I think all that this entails is keeping rather copious 
notes about your observations, as I understood Tony to say that he would 
go into the mountains and spend some time studying the movements of the 
animals to determine where it would be best to set up his traps. The 
next sentence says that upon my arrival the base camp will be established 
at a roadhead in the mountains. This is not necessarily so, and certainly 
the establishment of the base camp does not depend on my arrival: you 
tell me when, and I'll be there. The next sentence is the real clincher 
because it states that plans for capture will be completed from previously 
gathered information. I tried to tell how I thought the animals would be 
caught, but in the light of "previously gathered information" we can deo 
anything we want, depending on when you want to move the animals or 
whether you want to acclimatize them right there. 
Don't feel that you have to be constrained by the wording of the grant 
because every man on the committee recognizes that field conditions 
dictate actions. 
On page 3, paragraph 4: the time that this will take of course is 
variable and we only expect it to take 8 months. I really suspect that one 
of our troubles will be that you two will catch the animals too quickly. 
Sub-paragraph C is my pay-off to the Geographic. I will have to write 
a story for them, and they will want to send 4 photographer along. I know 
they are intrigued by the idea of using a helicopter to get the animals out, 
and will want a picture of the animals “in the wild". I have sugge sted 
Tom Abercrombie as photographer, as he has had extensive experience 
overseas and was with me in India when I went out to get the white figer. 
They don't know if Abercrombie will be free at that time and have suggested 
Alan Roct. This is immaterial to me; let me know how you feel about Alan. 
