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2 T KENNETH C. BROWN»:
ADDENDA TO LETTER SEN A ee
I do not believe that a permit is required to capture small
memmele and birda in Guatemala but 4t would be a diplomatic gesture
to make application to conduct research from the Director of the
Maseo Negionel de Historia Neturel dn Guatemale City, The Director,
in turn, will fiesue to you a letter which ia useful in dealing with
the authorities of the various departmenta of the Republic. The
most important taiing ds to Jet the Direator know of your plans and
objectives, More than likely you will fenefit considerably more
from the contest with thie offieial than the time it requirea to
eequire the permit

If solleoting prévileges for Mexico are desired, and I am sure
they will be, 4 permit ds required from the Fish and Game’ Department,
(Two photographs or yourself must accompany the requost for permit. )

A vermit to own end earry a gun is required in Guatemala, and is
iseued and renewed by the Minieterio de ia Defensa Nacional, Palecio
Nacional in Guatemala Oitye Depending on the prevailing emergency of
the sountry the acquisition of thie permit san be difficult or imposaible
but never routine. I would @dvise you to @llow at least one month
for the transaction of your bueiness with the Minieterio.

In Mexice @ gun permit omn be agquired from the General of the
military distriot in which you are working, Always remember that
only an authorized official of the Mexican Government oan confiscate
your gun.

A certification of police resord fe important when entering a
foreign country end while I did not have casasion to a@e mine beyond
the need for acquiring a gun permit, I could conceivably see thet if
one were to get in trouble with the police or unfortunately get involved
in an active revolt, or revyelotion, that the letter certifying your
police record would talks |

A certification letter of intentions and objectives whould be
issued, providing the expeditidh is sponsored by an institut on. Thies
letter holds coneiderable weignt when applying for pernita, ahipping
or earrving specimens across the international borders.

Isdd the short form bill of deding of the shipment of my oar
to and from Guetemala, Travel service buresua or feat ant Screhadese
will yguote you the price for shipping your car from Line states to
Guatemala but seldom do they let you underetand thet the
shipment back to the states will be considerably higher.
inoreese rate of from $253,
I peid for the return trip.

return

Note the
OO to $352.02, the lateer figure of which

In 1954 the charges were 40 sents ,
4 UE per cuble foot plus New
aces Cea = ge per 2000 lbs. All singed what be fully
° B&pect deleys all along +}
continually changed, iat aa i i,

A letter te the Oustom Houses should be tasued by the Director
of the Museo Nacional de Historia Nathosdloerthe Ministerio de
Agriculture to the effect shat your speci#iene have been properly
fumigated or preserved. The customs at the border, especisily the
U.S. Oustome 411 demand such a certifiantion. Many colleetions
have been quarantined because, for example, unsteriliazed cotton or
foreign cotton was used in preparing the srecimenss