PACIFIC SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CENTER P.O.Box 6037, BERNICE P. BISHOP MUSEUM Honolulu, Hawaii 96818 Telephone 855-951 June 3, 1969 Dr. Dean Amadon, Department of Birds, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. 10024, Dear Dean: Upon my return to Bishop Museum, I found my desk buried beneath a pile of mail 16 inches high. After excavating down through it and attending to the most urgent matters, I set about two matters (1) to make a photocopy of the typed copy of my field notes when a member of the Whitney Expedition on the France, including prints of some of the photographs I took, which I thought might be of most interest to you; and (2) preparing a chronological itinerary of the France and the years before and after, documented to the 25 manuscript volumes which you made it possible for me to yead, to which I am adding my own (as "Z"). The first of these two projects has now been completed, and I am sending you 69 photographs and some 400 pages of typed text, which I believe should be a useful addition to the records of the Whitney Expedition. I made a beginning on project 2 last Sunday, and should shortly have another bit of manuscript, in the form of an index guide to the other 26 volumes for your files. Later, I will send you some suggestions as to the manner in which a summary of the Whitney Expedition and its findings might be compiled. There is a lot of valuable scientific information in that shelf full of material. What appealed most to me was the numerous lists of vernacular names of birds. If my check list of Pacific birds is ever ready to publish, I would like very much to include mention of the various native names of species from different island groups, as recorded by the various hard-working field collectors. That might also be the place to mention field observations on different species. Thanking you and your associates for making my visit so pleasant and profitable, I am Yours very sincerely, Ed Edwin H. Bryan, Jr., Manager