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five to ten years. We have floor space available for approximately
22 cases without stacking cases three high, a situation which is to
be avoided. Curation of the present holdings will take about two
years to complete if it continues at the present rate, and will
require 18 cases be made available in one shipment, to begin the
necessary major reorganization.

Incourage communication by letter rather than by telephone when
time is not a factor. Letters provide documentation of museum trans-
actions as well as justification for increase secretarial help, thus
providing profit for the museum instead for a gain for AT&T.

Dr. Robert S. Hoffmann, Curator of Mammels has been on sabbatical
leave (fiscal year 1976-77) at the Smithsonian Institution and there
has conducted considerable K.U. Museum business by phone: and correspond-
encee

. Dr. Norman A. Slade is on sabbatical leave at the National Institute
of ental Health in Bethesda, -taxyland for an indeterminate period
since January of 1976. He is studying Uniten Behavior Systems.

Respectively submetted,

4 James W. Bee
Acting Curator of Mammals