Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931--Correspondence, Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919--Correspondence, Stanford University--Presidents, Eigenmann, Carl H., 1863-1927, Zoologists--United States, Deans (Education)--Indiana, Indiana University. Graduate School, Ichthyologists--United States, Rivers--South America, South America--Discovery and exploration, Carnegie Museum, Rivers--Panama, Panama--Discovery and exploration, Ichthyology--South America, Ichthyology--Panama, Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932, Atrato River (Colombia)
A typescript letter from David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, to Andrew Carnegie concerning funding for Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, professor of Zoology and dean of the Graduate School of the University of Indiana, for his exploration of the Panama region of South America. Jordon writes that Eigenmann had been studying the rivers of northern South America, ""under the auspices of the Carnegie Museum"". He writes that Eigenmann wants to do work in the Panama region ""to note the animals of the streams of the two sides of the isthmus before the canal pours them all together and destroys all future possibilities of a study of their distribution"". Per Eigenmann's request, Jordan writes that he has ""inadvertently drawn upon funds"" from Dr. W.J. Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, that Eigenmann was expecting to use. Jordon then states that Eigenmann has already left for the Atrato River in northern Colombia. Includes penciled notation at top of letter.