Show INTO AN AGREEMENT Smithsonian Institution Makes Public Roosevelt Letter Requesting Assistance ton Dee Dec 16 The agreement be bet IV w ilent t and the SmIth 1 till tW as to the presidents voa ip ii m in i Africa was KS made public to toaY uri of ot othI D Wolcott Volcott secretary aY M tit it ion hI I iri of regents re of oC the institution in Tb I d n the presidents president s letter etter letteri e d 1 A it resolution re into a I for tor certain with Ith th the or president wrote to Dr r Wolcott ork itI T t lim II s i I The Presidents Letter M Ut HI tl I of April next I V fur tr r Africa My plans are nrc of oe toO I fa n I finite but at et present I J hope I r Cubing the following II urK h IM on r MH Ta I shall land a and andi i V r next f fw w months hunting and Ind nd ne n in n British and nd German East A Ap Ar Af K gog through or toward i 1 la p wah th tIlt the expectation of striking about the LIIk beginning of or the new n w wr I N i 1 working Irking down it with side r ml tilen I aft animals and birds so as to toI tidewater say sa about March 1 V III I f out u L at it A give me U e ten months In Af Ar Afi Ti rH P In the least T oil OU know I am Rm not SV ia i 1 1 to do a certain b i L I like Mke I f but my real and a 11 fost is w the th interest rost of o a faunal 1 10 Nw ow W it seems to me rue that opens v bet vf h nce for tot the national museum tJ ti t pt t 1 a fm fin fine mt nt of the big h but of the smaller mammals ta I d I of Africa and looking at It n 1 I beliey that tho the chance ought not to be nested ne l What He Wanted Want d dr arrangementS to for T I r make pay of and my m son But Buti i 1 i like to do would be to get w II iI Hi Ii n tW professional pros lonal field taxidermists field ts to tl t go RO with me who i and send end back the sp l TS 1 W The Tho collection which i ij Ji 1 thus 1 is g Ie to 10 the national museum ft 1 11 Jil IM k II If f unique value alue It would I Im m iu l of oC big game to toi torn I rn i I iril the rare smaller animals and andi j i i aI tV not the means that would Id Ii t l pay for the field naturalists Rod nd their kit and the ther r 1 nt rt f 1 e 1 specimens and curing of oft off o oth t f fr th tin museum Of Ot course i tini hunting of the th big game I Ii 1 1 1 i want tilt tut to do myself or have hat my m son sonIm Im ui ut th tl flip specimens will all go 00 ro to the i tui save a very Yer few tew per peI 01 i t of little scientific value II r that reason I might ml ht wIth wISh to tok tokI tok k kI i N w can you In view vie of getting gettin h Sf se e pe miens for the national museum nang f fr the services of o the field taxi i mif anti ini for the care and the trans transport transport port pArt nf fl t t specimens As I fie fel that the national museum Is Ish h hp um to which my should 1 |