January 10, 1984

Dear Mr Plant:

Thank you for your recent letter. Yes, I do remember our correspondence of several years ago and your interests in the Pekin Bantam and the domestic chicken.

In reply to your quest for any new information about discoveries of pre-Columbian chickens in the Americas, I am not able to help you. I rarely peruse the literature on such geologically young remains. Perhaps one of my colleagues in Arizona might be able to assist your though. He is Dr Stanley L.Olsen, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85718, USA. If he can’t help you, perhaps he can provide names of others who might.

Sincerely yours,

John H. Ostrom
Professor of Geology