5 & 7 Lucas Street 
St .George *s 
Grenada B W I 
April 12th, 1957 
Ivir Waldo S Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Washington 85 D C 
Dear Mr. Schmitt, 
Thanks for your letter of March 12th and specially 
so for your kind remarks about our islands. I hope that I will 
have the pleasxire of seeing you when next you visit although I 
trust that the visit will not he preceded hy a hurricane as was 
the case when you were here last as well as on the occasion on 
which I met Dr.Busck, 
Monkeys are still very plentiful in the island 
although they suffered severely during the hurricane and since, 
as a result of so much of the forests having been destroyed and 
with it many of their sources of food. They are as a result much 
holder in their raids on crops. The only reference I can find about 
them is contained in the Grenada Handbook where they are described 
as MONA MONKEY ( Cercopithecus Jtona), An African species, now 
now naturalized in small numbers in the forests of the Grand Etang 
region. It was perhaps introduced by the slave traders from the 
West Coast of Africa, The hand book referred to was published in 
1916 and the information taken from a work MAMMALS by Glover M 
Allen. Further reference is made in the same publication in 
Department of Zoology 
Smithsonian Institution 
United States National Museum 
