SI Bredin Exp,— Society Ids, 
February ?, 1957 
AIR MAIL 
Dr. Jack Randall 
lacht »MJiI* 
Papeete, Tahiti 
Dear Dr. Randall : 
Three cheers for everybody * 1 . I have just received word from Mr, 
McConnaughey that everything is in order so far as your being Captain 
of the KAREVA for our cruise is concerned. As you will see from the 
enclosed copy of his letter, there should be no question about the 
insurance. Yes sir, I feel good all over when I know that you will 
be with us, and that brings up the matter of cook again. I have 
absolutely no objection or hesitancy about accepting your wife, if 
she is willing, and cares to come, but, as I have said before, I do 
not want to break up her family life so far as the little girl is 
concerned. In any case, I shall have to call upon both of you for 
some advice as to what we need to get in the way of stores, Mr. 
McConnaughey said if I want to do any advance ordering I should get 
in touch with Johnny Rea sin, who probably is well known to you, inas- 
much as he is in charge of the MAREVA. 
Before I forget it, in accepting you, we are taking you on your 
minimum figure of $500 a month . 
Now, as to the collecting of fishs I would like to make a reason- 
able collection of fishes and would like to count on you to take charge 
of that phase of our work, or at least to assist with it. I saw Bob 
Harry for a few minutes the other day when he passed through here. I 
gather that he still has a great interest in whatever fish you are 
collecting for him, and so did not pursue the idea of possibly taking 
over what had been left on your hands, or discussing the financial 
arrangements that he had made with regard to them. Please rest 
assured that was not mentioned, but he is still keen for your fishes. 
I mentioned that we did not expect to duplicate the collections for 
the purpose of competing with him on a report of the fishes of the 
area. My interest as a Museum man would be to have a good representa- 
tion here no matter who makes the report , and I told Bob that if he 
were willing we would be glad to have him undertake a report of our 
fishes along with his own (meaning those that you had collected for 
him) . I am not one for competing with a man in his own field and area. 
Now, what do we need to bring along for fish collecting? Schultz 
says 2-10 gallon tins rotenone concentrate. Isn't that far too much 
for the few weeks that we will be in the islands? I tell you frankly, 
I cannot set an itinerary, but what I would like to do is to go to the 
less visited island, places where we can either extend ranges or estab- 
lish records which are relatively undisturbed by "traffic". Just off- 
hand, I would guess that one-half of our time would be spent in cruising. 
