Nov. 1 - Washington a meeting of the Stanford faculty in biology when it was voted that out materials of special value (types, Laysan colls.), not fishes, should be given to MVZ. Wilbur was away at the time; it is suspected that upon his return, he disapproved this departmental action. I should follow up this lead tactfully with Wilbur (on basis of added MVZ endowment) - submitting draft of my letter to Sprout, however. Visited Wetmore, who showed me a lot of birds recently collected by himself in the state nearby to Washington. Included [illegible] were specimens of Atlantic Dry Sparrow and Carolinensis franco, some of each of which Wetmore promised to send to MVZ - which would be new to us. Wetmore also showed me his system of maintaining his records for fossil birds of North America - reprints (where available), measurements, casual notes, citations - all together in one folder for each species. Also he showed me a cut set of entries for the list of North American birds (existing) to be kept down to date for the next AOU Checklist.