Continuation of May letter 
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This place Uvira is another highlight in trip several weeks on 
this Lake Tanganyika is rewarding and worth ai^one’s ■idiile. I can 
most highly recanmend this station and accommodations, and its 
young (38) director to anyone, WLS 
abrupt ending of the other day (about May left us— 
you high and dry at the tlvira hydrobiological station at the head of 
Lake Tanganyika, in a comfortable spacious "old** hotel building. 
Did I mention that Marlier, the director, reminds me for all the world 
of Bob Lunz vho was on the Joseph Conrad with us. Same build, thin, 
wiry, active, dark complected, black hair, and half Frenchi both are 
in charge of biological stations and wives are both blondes. Marlier 
is just as interesting as Bob and loves his work just as mnoh. 
On the morning of the 15>th we went through the lab. examined 
collections, and talked over probl®ns, connected with the work, and 
people working along those lines elsevdiere. That afternoon we worked 
down the Lake shore west,ajd south, but got very little— a few crabs. 
The rare shrimp here George (Georges Marlier) promises for another 
day. The next morning the 20th the ItO ft lab. boat was taken out on 
the lake and put through some of its paces*- -making a couple of dredge 
hauls,— one was mostly sand with few dead shells, the other little 
else than a few aquatic plants. The boat is here one needs just a 
week more to make the best use of it,— a drum of gas would get a lot 
of steaming and hauling donej I*d also like to come back with some 
