Continuation of 
May lli/55 letter 
Dear Bmjce and Mrs. Bredin, 
The last word in the letter mailed you from Bukavu was cut rather 
short. Thornton's place, like most of the more comfortable residences, 
is on the lake (Kivu) shore, has huge spacious rooms and strangely 
enough is not African in its appointments or arrangements, rather 
Oriental, Chinese pictures and far Eastern things in general. I failed 
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to inquire the whyfore but when I remarked upon the absence of things 
African I&*s. Thornton, a Belgian girl, I believe, remarked, "Oh, no, 
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we have no African decorations." For cocktails, Thornton had in a Mr. 
Bredo, secretary of the "Scientific Council for Africa South of the 
Sahara, G.S.A, as it is abbreviated from the French. Bredo is in 
charge of the business of the organisation in which all the governments 
and territories in this part of Africa take part thru duly appointed 
representatives. The Council was formed Nov. 1950. This body is 
largely advisory, but seeks to insure maximum cooperation anong all 
scientific workers throughout the designated part of Africa. Annual 
meetings and symposia are held for exchange of infonnation and ideas. 
Bredo left after cocktails, but Dr. Fercartanen-Grandjean, the only 
other guest pi^sent other than your party. Dr. Baker, the Sextons, and 
myself, stayed on for dinner. Veroamraen is the mite specialist in this 
part of the world and enjoys a high reputation among zoologists and 
entomologists, even though a comparativ^y young man. He is, among 
other things, an accomplished scientific artist and turns out most 
accurate drawings of the species of African mites parasitizing animals. 
