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[[preprinted]] [[image - drawing of the Smithsonian]] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Washington, U.S.A. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNILOGY NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART FREER GALLERY OF ART INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE [[/preprinted]] September 9, 1929 Dear Mr. Holmes: In response to your recent telephone message, I am sending you herewith a photograph of Secretary Langley; his steam-driven aerodrome in flight over the potomac on May 6, 1896, and a view of the same machine in the shop shortly after this flight. In connection with your trip to Jamaica, you may be interested in looking at the chapter on the comparison of the buzzard with the Jamaican "John Crow", page 285 of the Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, sent herewith. Please return this volume, as it is my office copy. Yours, [[signed]] H. W. Dorsey [[/signed]] Mr. William Holmes, Director, National Gallery of Art.