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Dr. Leonard Carmichael 
The Secretary , The Sn ithsonian Institution 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition next spring. 
Dear Dr. Carmichael: 
I do owe you an apology . I want to assure you, and 
reassure you, if I may, that I am the last man in the world who 
would want to create, or knowingly occasion the situation to which 
you call my attention. I am sorry. 
But I did come over to see you, to deliver in person 
the memorandum asking for the needed deposit check, to tell you 
of developments , and to leave with you if desired the letter from 
Desmond Nicolson attached hereto. But you were out of town. 
Mr . Bredin had indicated to me that he wished to 
start from Trinidad on April 1 for a five weeks cruise visiting also 
Tabago and Barbados. As he usually remains with the expeditions 
he sponsors for only a week or two, it is my hope thereafter to re- 
visit Barbuda where our collections proved so fruitful last spring , 
to more thoroughly examine the caves there, but beyond having a 
closing date in Antigua, on May 5, there is no set itinerary as yet. 
It is usually worked out as we go along wind, weather, and collect- 
ing opportunities for the Museum being the determining factors . 
Mr. Bredin himself has invited William Amos expert 
’’nature’' photographer and teacher of the St. Andrew’s School in 
Middletown, Delaware, of which Mr. Bredin is a trustee, as he 
is also of the University at Newark. From that Institution he has 
invited Dr. Richard Floyd Darsie, Jr . , to accompany the expedition, 
and as last year he is bringing along John Finlay of Varadero, Cuba, 
an expert on West Indian mollusks . Desmond Nicholson, captain of 
the FREELANCE will also be aboard as pexert diver. The vessel 
this year will be the CARIBEE formerly owned by Mr. Ernest May, 
Mr. Bredin’s brother-in-law. From this Institution I hope we can 
have Dr. Cutress specialist on sea-anemones if available, and 
myself. ' 
In the matter of Dr. Darsie, the University called long 
distance some days ago to ask if we might take him along. I replied 
that the complement was about complete and that if an addition was 
to be included, they would have to take the matter up with Mr. Bredin 
as transportation for an additional member of the scientific staff 
was not included in my estimates. 
