SI Bredin Exp,— West Indies 
Copy of this letter sent Dec, 1956 
AIR LETTER October 19, 1956 
Capt, Desjnond Nicholson 
Box 103 
St, John’s 
Antigua, B.W.I. 
Dear Desiaond : 
I Just do not seera to be able to get around to the many 
things I want to do, or, indeed, should do. One of them was 
to send you a /£^§r^^^achrome slides. As you will see, 
from the package , most of them were taken 
by Ik*. Smith (ACS)j a few are ngr own, as you will observe. 
The one of English Harbor was taken by yourself and the 
original has been slipped in beside the little plastic boxes 
containing the other slides. There is still one more slide I 
want to send you, but I failed to get it copied, a nice “shot" 
of you at the wheel taken by Dr. Smith, If you do not get it 
in the next three or four weeks, do remind me of this promise. 
Incidentally, in the course of unpacking our collections, 
we failed to turn up the bottom samples, those little dips of 
material that I tried to get at each anchorage. I am quite sure 
they were sent to the biochemist along with the soil samples 
taken on the various islands, but Dr. Ghace thinks we left them 
behind on the "Free Lance." You tell us, I am writing the 
DuPonts who got the soil samples in this same mail. There were 
15 canvas sacks not in plastic bags. The soil samples, on the 
other hand, were put each into a plastic bag for safety sake. 
I often think of you folks and wish we were back cruising 
the Caribbean again. If our good fortune holds, we should be 
sailing for fahiti on the 23rd of next March for six weeks in 
the Society islands. They are reputed most beautiful, but we 
shall see. 
Kindest regards to your father, mother, Rodney and his wife, 
and yourself. Do not fail to remember me to the crew* 
Sincerely, 
NLS:eek 
Waldo L, Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
