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9 August 1953

Dr. James W. Bee

Museum of Natural History
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Jim;

How goes everything? JI have been meaning to drop you a line for some
time now. Is the mammal project for the ONR completed? I will be interested
to see the results.

We are just now finishing up our completion report to’ the ONR on the
birds of the Colville, and are now faced with the task of rewriting the whole
thing, in a somewhat condensed form, for publication, ‘The task is somewhat
complicated by the fact that I am now at the University of California, Los
Angeles, a good many thousand miles from my collaborators in Alaska.

We are attempting to bring together all published and unpublished records
that we can obtain, and in this regard I would like to ask you about the
bird records that you and your grouped obtained on the Arctic slope, If you
have no plans for publishing these yourself and if your records could be made
available to us in some wy, we would very much like to include them in our
report, Our discussion is to concern the entire Colville drainage, which
covers a good part of the Arctic slope, and I know you have many pertinent
records=~particularly nesting data, Your stuff from Chandler Lake, for instance,
would be most useful to us, since we have very little information from the
upper reaches of the drainage. I believe you said you found ——o Longspurs
there; they did not occur in any of the areas visited by us,

Dr. Kessel and I do not want to Sapibge upon anyone's work, and if your
bird data are being, or going to be, worked up for publication that is all well
and good, but if they are just being filed away for safekeeping, it does seem
like a good opportunity to put them to use.

It looks as though I shall, regretably, be removed from the Alaskan
scene for some time, as I am now engaged in doctoral studies at U.C.L.A.
Here they seem to have a nasty way of expecting one to make up what they call
"undergraduate deficiencies,"

KS: J Hawt pu

oo yours,

Prva: Conde

Tom J. g.

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