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Continuation of May lU/55 letter 
The next morning we went to the local research laboratoiy lAiere 
Vercammen works and met his chief , a Cr. Jadin^ with whom I had had 
some correspondence, regarding this trip, iki important part of their 
work concerns the tsetse fly, the carrier of sleeping sickness and 
the scourge of many parts of Africa, and along our route to Uganda. After 
lunch we went to Lwiro idiich I thought was nearer to Bukavu proper 
than the hours run, mo e or less than it takes. 
IRSAC (Institut pour la re^erche scientifique en Afrique centrale) 
located at Lwiro, is growing to be a most important research center. 
New building are being added to an already large establishaent. This 
is about covering all fields of science and research except in the 
field of agriculture, for which there is INEAC with stations 
strategically placed throughout the country. At Tangambi you may recall 
we put up at the INEAC, headquaartera. Here too at Lwiro we lived in 
very comfortable guest houses, the Sextons and I in two rooms of one, 
and Baker in another. These houses as the station proper are also on 
the shores of Lake Kivu idiich is a 0 considerable body of water, 
perhaps 75 miles long. It is the highest lake in Africa, lying at 
an altitude of something over 1*700 feet. It certainly adds to the 
beauty of this part of the country. • 
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The first mey we encountered when we drove up to the Lwiro station 
in search of the director Dr. van den Berghe was Frank Lambrecht, a 
Belgian whom I met at Hutgers Univ. about 2 or 3 years ago. HC was 
then studying serology under Dr, Alan Boyden and now is applying some 
of the things he learned in the study of the distribution of' sleeping 
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