Schenectady, N.¥<., June 28th, 1912. 
Mr, William Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass, 
Dear Sir:- 
I> was intensely interested in your article in the January 
“huk” on bird flight. I ama student of ornithology and also of 
aviation and your ohservations are of the greatest interest from 
the standpoint of the latter science. Have you ever published 
this article in an aeronautical paper? I am sure that they would 
be 4@lighted to get it. Would you like to have it published in 
one of these papers and would you wish to be remunerated for it, 
I would be very much pleased to call this to the attention of one 
of the best of these papers on instructions from you to this effect? 
There is one point, which although very well stated I would 
like to get any further information regarding een you will be 
able to remember, This is the distance ahead of the ship that 
these gulls hur flying, that is, were any within an mneye of 45° 
from the straight tn the direction of the ships 1 It ‘is. @ character- 
istic of etuocnuarta disturbances created by a moving body that they 
rise sign Ae via! ahead of bi body but trail out considerable 
distances shend ‘end on the side, ‘a8 well as behind the body, Brom 
what you a it does not appear that these gulls could have been 
floating on the serial wave caused by the ship yet from your de- 
scription they certainly seem to have been flying in the general 
