Vs". R^dagton Kellogg 
Waldo L. SclsKttt 
telthsoniaa iredin Caribbean Bqpedition 
Ifey 3, 1956 
a w>td to rtport Br* Ghsoe^s and ngr rotnim to duty at tno ^senm* 
Kie Bredin expedition was far swre snceesafnl than first anticipated in 
view of size of vessel and liadlted ti»e. itowever, we were enabled to make a 
ntioiber of interesting observational of shrinp ot^BBensal with anea^nes^ windrows 
of red crab negalops on the beaohj thonsands of thesi at one tii^ and in one 
long drift, a phenoaenon idiich in the experien^ of the natives, fishermen and 
otters seems never to iav# been iwted before. iQ.so, I was enabled to realise 
a twenty-year ambition landing on Redonda Island, a place difficnlt of acees 
except in the most favorable weather which was vonchsafed ns this time, and 
from iddch Br. Foshag has l®ng desired sallies fr<® a phosphatic depoait 
oeenrring there, 
Ife left Trinidad on Harda 13 on the schooner "Rreelance** with Jir. Bredin, 
visiting Qt^nada and several of the (hrenadines, ffiaki*^ ^rtiniqne on the 22nd. 
Here Mr. Iredin left for the States, after the Aaerican Consol at !^rt de 
France, Mr. Williaia B. Cobb, 4r. , had taken ws on a toor of the island. On 
April 9, Mr. a^est H. May, Mr. Bredin’ a brother-in-law, Joined the expedition 
for the rest of the omise. It was Ifr. May idio financed Ibr. I&reiger’s and Mr, 
Morton’s expedition to the Mast Indies ^>ont 10 years ago. 
Er. Clarke was piclmd up at Roseau, Dominica, on April 2$, The subse- 
quent stops and his personal activities he has enisaerated for yous 
(hiadelonpe, Antigua, Redonda (mentioned above), Mevia, St. Christophs, 
Virgin (ksrda, and Tortola, 
He and Er. Saith depsted for Washington from St. (hroix by air on the 
19th and 20th re^ectively. Dr. Chace and 1 left St. Croix by the Alcoa 
"Runns" on the 23rd, 2 diya later ths expected. 
As Ih', Clske has recounted, he collected between 35,000 and 20,000 
Insects, Dr. ^th collected over h,€K}0 specimens of plants, and Dr. Chace 
and I gathered a most satisfactoiy lot oF Crustacea still enroute and yet 
to be counted, certainly mmbering several idiousand ^eimens. Included ai^^ 
numerous invertebrates were several crinoids taken alive, starfish, sea-urchins 
•ea-hmres, and eephalopods. 
An accession for the material collected, and a more formal report on the 
activities of the expedition will be forwarded in tea course. 
