3, 1956 
Dr. Rwiiagion EsUogg 
U»ldo L. Sehoitt 
&d.thsonian ftredio Caribbean Expaditlon 
Jaat a vord to report Dr. Chaoe's ax^ agr retam to duty at the Miseam. 
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The Bredin exqpeditlon waa far More saecesaful than firat aatlolpated in 
Tiew of aise of veaael and United tine. However, we were enabled to nake a 
ntnAmr of intereating obaenratlona ; of ahrinp oownenaal with annaonea, windrowa 
of red crab negalopa on the beaeh, thoaaanda of thm at one tine and in one 
long drift, a phenooenon idiich in the exqperience of the nativea, fialMmen and 
othera aeon never to have been noted before, ilao, I waa enabled to reallae 
a twentyoyear anibitioii of landing on Redonda Inland, a place difficult of aeoeaa 
except in the ooat favorable weather which waa vouohaafed ua thia tine, and 
from tdxich Dr. Foahag haa Xmxg deaired wmplBO trm a phcajdiatie depoait 
occurring there. 
hb left Trinidad on Haroh 13 <» the aohooner "Freelance” with Mr. Bredin, 
viaiting Qrenada and aeveral of the Ormadlnea, making Martinique on the 22nd. 
More Mr. Bredin left for the Statea, after the inerioan Conaul at Port da 
France, Mr. WLlllan B. Cobb, dr. , had taken ua on a tour of the ialand. On 
April 9. . ^, yyn^Bt May, Mr. VQt .hr r>i n -law , ini r. fid U i tr my aadi l i 
Iw thb ^a€ 'tll^ ex^lae. It iiaa Mr. lAo financed Dr. fireiger’a and 
Morton *8 expedition to the West Ihdiea about 10 yeara ago. 
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Dr. Clarke waa picked up. at Roaeau, Dnainioa, on April 25. The aubae- 
quent atopa and hia peraonal aetivitiea he haa enunerated for yout 
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‘ " Guadeloupe, Antigua, Redonda (nantioned above), Nevia, St. Chrlatopher, 
Tlrgin Oorda, and Tortola. 
Be and Dr. Shdth departed for Waahington from St. Croix by air on the 
19th and 20th reapeotively. Dr. Chace and I left St. Croix by the Alcoa 
'^uxuier* on the 23rd, 2 daya later thn expected. 
Aa Dr. Clarke has recounted, be collected between 15*000 and 20,000 
inaecta. Dr. Smith eollacted over ktOOO apednena of planta, and Dr. Chace 
and X gathesred a moat aatiafactoxy lot of cruataeea atill enroute and yet 
to be counted, certainly nmbering aeveral thouaand apeoinma. Included aonong 
nuneroTia invert ebratea were atveral orinoida takan alive, atvrflah, 8ea*>ur china , 
aaa-harea, and cephalopoda. 
An aooeaaion for tha material eoUaetad, and a more formal raport on the 
aetivitiea of tha expedition will be forwarded in dnKCourae. 
