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Name of Applicant REE H. THEODORE = 
Total amount needed in the grant requested from the National Geographic Society: 
. Budgeting of this sum to be specified in detail, e.g., equipment, 
assistants (name and qualification), field work, travel, etc. The 
Committee is very anxious to have the budget items given with 
precision and in detail: 
Professional Services 
John Seago & Tony Parkinson (See Attachment C) 
3 months @ $500 
1 month @ $4000 
Camp (incl. trucks, equipment, etc.) Maintenance 
Salaries for laborers, camp men, trackers, & trappers 
Supplies and airlifting of same 
Airlifting animals 
Quarantine of animals (90 days X 3 animals X $10/day) 
Air transport for animals and attendant to the U.S.A. 
Total 
b. Person or Institution (Please note that no charge for overhead i 
allowed) to whom payment should be made: 
Smithsonian Institution 
c/o Mrs. -Betty.J. Morgan, Assistant: Treasurer 
. Schedule of payments desired: 
$20,000..0n- dune 1, 2966 
If a grant involving travel abroad is approved no payment will 
be made until the Society has the following information: (1) 
that a passport from the State Department can be secured and 
if necessary a foreign visa, and (2) that, if the work is to 
be done in any laboratory or library abroad, adequate access 
to the same has been assured and the material to be studied 
will be available. | 
a. Plan for research or exploration (Please outline techniques to be used): 
Three. months prior. te My arrival in Nairobi; Kenya, Mev oSeage 
and his staff will begin their studies of the Bongo. These studies 
will define the habits, movement patterns, and trails used by the 
antelope. Upon my arrival a base camp will be established at a 
roadhead in the Aberdare Mountains. From this point, plans and 
preparations for the capture will be completed in light of the 
previously gathered information. Nets will be employed for the 
capture after which corrals will be erected, and the animals will 
go through a period of acclimatization to human contact at the 
capture site. During this time, re-supply from the base camp will 
be accomplished by helicopter which will also transport the animals 
back to the roadhead. Overland transport in crates to Mombasa and 
ocean shipment to New York (Domestic Quarantine) via an overseas 
stop (Foreign Quarantine) and on to Washington,D.C. will follow. 
