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and accurate. The curator's visit to California in January and February provided an opportunity for tracing Montgomery's work in detail. Prior to making this trip the curator studied a number of texts describing Montgomery's work in order that he would be fortified by a fresh review of existing data. Interviews in California with Mr. Cornelius Reinhart, who worked with Montgomery, with professors at the University of Santa Clara who had been present during his work there, and with the several members of the family now living in Oakland and San Francisco, were very informative. As stated in Part 2 of this report, a number of the original glider parts were procured. The information obtained has been embodied in a separate report and will be utilized in preparing the exhibit of Montgomery glider parts which is now taking shape in the West South Range.

During this trip to California several other personal contacts were made through the curator's knowledge of individual accomplishments in aeronautics by the persons visited, was improved. The more prominent persons contacted in such personal research include: Fred Wiseman of Berkeley, California, who had made an airmail demonstration flight on February 17, 1911 in a plane of his own construction; Harry Christofferson, who with his brothers, built and flew a progressive series of airplanes, seaplanes, and flying boats in the early days; Mike Dulin of San Francisco, who flew in the First World War; Bert Winslow, who was one of the flyers on the Transcontinental Airmail routes, 1921-1925; and Franklin Rose of Oakland, who had been one of the operators of the first Contract Airmail route in 1926.

Research in the history of Airmail operations has been stimulated through recent correspondence. Mr. David Behncke of the Air Line Pilots Association has given some helpful suggestions; contacts with Mr. Edward