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[waren 12, 1957 |
Snecrted Gprl Go 755
Deer Kenneth! C, Greewrr;

t would be glad to advise you and your group on a trip to
Guatemale, May I sompliment you on your enthusiasm and courage
and especially on your aspirationa and the scope of your under-
takinge I sm sure with your experience in the field you. #il1
realize your goal.

Ae my experience in Guatemala wae during @ period of commun»
getio umrest, and was based on & one man expedition fully equipped
for independent operation and with inatitutionel aponsorehipy
precise infarmetion for you will be difficult. Because of the
variables of size of group and the complez interrelations of
objectives, Sislde of interests and non-institutional representat-
fon, @ certain caution should be excercised in aceerting my infor~
mation a8 applicable to your plan#e

With your background of experience god could justifiably
eliminate the short period resonnaissonce whioh under ordinary
eiroumsatances would be advisable in a country that is 30 di-
vareified in physiography, and ao rich in flore and fauna and
arsheologicel material. In addition, when so much time end

expense is required to go to and from a place ea far away as
Guatemale, there is good reason for making 4 full aummer of
field work instead of separate trips of shorter duration. To
semple the covere) srene of suspected differentiation of fauna
and flore (centers of probable epecistion), to visit all the
type localities of kinds previously named, and to take adequate
samples of the several kinds of animals and birds will require
the entire summer. I advise you, therefore, and assuming that
finances are not too limiting, to plan on a full scale basis
and start out as @ apecielized field party.

Enclosed are severe] items from my last trip to Guatemala
of correspondense and documents which I have annotated, and which
I hope will help you to see vicariously the probleme of condust-
ing field work 4n Oentral America, I am sorry not to be able to
Send my field notes, ae they are presently in use. Retain the
annotated sheets, but kindly return the originel letters, docii-
ments and the map. In addition to these enclosed exhibit items,
and additional statement or two ean be made of some of the more
generel problems. of conducting field work in Gustemeala, I shell
not attempt to organize Ghia, dbte, but I will jot down those
ideas thet spontaneously come to mind #8 being relevant in your
case and not duplicated in the eaclosed.

There are a number of things for. you to do before leaving.
1) Check with the Alumni Office for @ list of all formar grad-
uates of B.Y.U. who are now living in Mexico and Guatemsla.
2) Get a List of al] Latter Day Seinte’ missionaries in Guatemala,
and where they can be found, 2) Have an internetional Certificate
of Vaccinetion (Yorld Health Organization) issued to you by the
frans-Yorld Airlines. This organization will give you the vac-
einetions and certificate free of charge. Other agencies, how-
ever, have the authority to issue the certificate. Inelude the
following for Guatemala: amallpoxs yellow fever, typhoid, tet-
anus, and typhus, Allow a month for the completion of the series.