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Can you folks forgive me this long delay and bear irith me a bit 
longer? The few Congo mementos that I have for you are still on the 
high seas. Neither one of the two shipaients started hme by ocean 
carrier has yet arrived. I am worried about the winter suit I wore 
over and hope it will get here before the moths make way with it. 
Incidentally, I am writing the copyright division of the Library 
of Congress to ask if the title, "Amaaing Africa* has been pre-mpted. 
As trite as it sounds it is most descriptive, at least of the part of 
Africa that we traversed. People, things to see, and to collect, the 
climate, the weather, tiie scenery, are all a revelation, as was also 
the absence of venain, flies and mosquitoes particularly. Only for a 
brief half hour in the Kagera Park, going out in the morning and 
coming back in the afternoon were tsetse flies in evidence. They kept 
us busy for a time, fanning them off. Baker was the only one that got 
a couple of bites, perhaps because was tiie entomologist, but that 
was all there tos to it. Amazing is the word for Africal 
On July 12 the Smithsonian news release, of which a copy is 
enclosed, makes scsne further reference to Ernest May’s Smithsonian 
ejqiedition of 19lj7, The good that ccsnes of these expeditions is a 
continuing thing. This is not the first nor will it be the last time 
that information developed by the trip that Mr. May financed for Rr. 
Krieger and Mr, Morton has proved to be of real scientific value. So 
will it be with the Bredin expedition also. The scientific results 
are seldom immediate but they do develop as time and stucfy go on. 
Again I am promising you another communication before too long. 
Anyway I shall keep trying, I hope that everything went well with 
you folks and according to “schedule* this June, ry best and kindest 
wishes to you all, both great and small. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Dept, of Zoology 
Fjic. 
WLSsvb 
