Mesioi r. 
Caaa, jSugttst 2, 1955 -2, 
la the Coago ten dteys were spent ia teopoidvllle, sad collectioas vere made 
locally, iiostly fro® shade trees i» the city. These consisted of both netivs 
and is^orted varieties of trees, Aboat sevsa days sere spent in S taaleyvills 
and the local area vm collected extenaivoly. Two »lays were spent at the JMEAC 
station (Institute national Studs Agriculture Congo) la Tangaabi west of 
Stanleyville, I spent the entire tiae there with tlj»ir soil ecologist, Or, M, S, 
Maldague, who was having difficulty with ttM aites he was fimiing ia his soil 
saapl^^s. These will be shipped to m lat®r for distributiiai to the proper 
speclslists, fh® eatoaologist , a*, J. E, Jecelle, had ok> site problms except 
for a few eolfee plants in the greenhouse which hMl been sprayed just bsfors I 
arrived, 
from Stanleyville we drove to the nortiamst corner of the Congo, collecting 
on both native and omaaontal plants, and then tumod south to the laSas region 
and Bukavn, Bocaiise a large aaioont of the tiae was spent in traveling and 
there were only one- or twn-aight stopovers, the collecting was ratter tephasard, 
but as asay enyironmats and tests were sasi^led as could be htedted. Mine days 
were spent in the vicinity of Bukava where we used the facilities of the TtiMG 
and ISSAC (Institute Sasearch Scientific Africa Central) and Public Health 
laboratories, hr, van den Berghe (IMAC), Mr, Hendriks (IMasC), and Dr. dadin 
of the Public health laboratories gave us all the facilities wo desired, 
Becssise of pre-arranged plans, too mch tism was spent at tte IMS AC station 
irtiere the general interest lies la parasitology, and too little at the TMAC 
station where ttey were wo.rkiaf on agricultural problesns and quite willing to 
help. Mites were fouiwl on alnost all the crops in this area fqr^injne, coffe e, 
tea , etc,), but ttey were not causing daiaagef caraatioas were badly dewsged by 
nitss end had to be sprayed every two weeks| the few grapes we saw were tesvily 
infested; but as a wtele, tte yile. p robl<« B8 were not serious. Both the I?SAC 
amd IMfsAC people would lites to have the loan of an fecarologist f or a year or 
two, Ite aention was »de as to who inmld pay for this! Collsctlons of 
parasitic nites nate by tte IKSAC perstenel are to be sent to tte Musorim in 
the near future, and mntei's of tte IM'MC staff will send spider mites when 
they are encountered, 
Two days were spent in Astrida, Euam^la-Urindi, wit.h hr. A. lain, at tte fublie 
Health Laboratory. Me is interested ia parasitoloji^ in general, sad is publish- 
ing on the internal parasitic adtes of biitis an«i 
from Astriila we drove to Entebbe, bgaiMia, and then to Juba in the Anglo-Egyptiaa 
Sudan, and ttea took tte boat to Stertoua, I left tte otter aeabers of tte 
expedition in IChartoiei, and flew to Cairo. 
I j^ent two days in Cairo, «ost of tte time with tte entoaologists at tte 
A^irieulture College ia Gisa— tte head of tte tepartacnt is Br. A, liassan wte 
is doing some work on plant feeding mites, I also spent sons tiae with Or, M, T, 
Sayed of the Ibrahim University wte is also working on tte plant feedici; mites. 
In teth cases the heavy teaching load prevents much research being done. 
Four days were spent in Italy to see tte Berlese Collection of sites at tte 
Agricultural axperisrant Station la Floreaee. fte collection ia so carefully 
giiarded that few people have been allowed to work on it, Br , G, Lostbardini, 
who is in charge of Business School, takes care of tte collection ate has done 
a nice job of cataloguing, etc,, ate has done a little work on the oites. 
