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Embassy of the United States of America

No. 151

The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and has the honor to request permission of the Government of the Republic of Korea for a group of United States scientists to take part in a program of biological research within that part of the Republic of Korea located directly south of the southern boundary of the Demilitarized Zone.  The Smithsonian Institution of the United States, in cooperation with Seoul National University, plans to conduct biological field investigations within this area. Professor KANG Yung-sun, head of the Department of Zoology at Seoul National University, is the coordinator of the program in the Republic of Korea.

United States scientists would like to carry out a preliminary field survey with Korean colleagues from September 10 through September 17, 1966. This survey would involve visits to four areas immediately south of the Demilitarized Zone.  In one of these areas United States armed forces are stationed. Armed forces of the Republic of Korea are stationed in the other three.  The following United States scientists would plan to participate in the preliminary survey:

Doctor Harold E. Coolidge, Executive Director of the Pacific Science Board, National Academy of Sciences;

Doctor F. R. Fosberg, Smithsonian Consultant;

Doctor Helmut K. Buechner, Head of the Office of Ecology, Smithsonian Institution; 

Doctor Lee M. Talbot, Representative on International Conservation, Smithsonian Institution.

The Embassy avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs its assurances of highest consideration.

Embassy of the United States of America
Seoul, August 9, 1966