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Mr. Bruce 3redin 
Greenville 
Delaware 
Dejir Bruce: 
Another ad interiai note; I hope it will be the last of th^ii I 
am getting more enthusiastic about the trip every minute, because we 
shall soon be down to brass tacks. By Monday or Tuesday, Wednesday at 
the latest*', I think I should have a very close estimate of what the 
trip will require in the way of financial backing, ‘except for certain 
incidentals, ^toich would include, so far as my tiioughts have run in 
that direction at the present moment, a proper tape recorder or two. 
Notlung enhances movies of out-of-the-way places so much as a little 
native background music, or cries of animals if they come within range. 
Also, I wish to be equipped with a couple of cartons of toy air- 
planes— a better grade for presentation to tribal chieftains, and a 
smaller model or pattena for the lessar lights. Nothing Impresses 
natives of the lesser civilized parts of the world more than modern 
airplanes. They see the "maxi bird" overhead, and are entranced to 
have a small replica of one at hand. 
I hope tliat xjothing intervenes to keep us from carrying tiirough 
the expedition as you have outlined it to me. I as thrilled with the 
thought of going to some of the so-called type localities from which 
African crustacea were descri’^ed. I did a paper on the shriiops of the 
L,ing-Chapin Expedition of a good many years ago. That sane Dr. Chapin 
is travelling in the Congo at this very moment. He is employed as a 
scientific advisor to tixe Belgian Government on matters of conserva- 
tion and naturxil histoiy in the Belgian Congo. He has a home in the 
neighborhood of Lxxke Kivu, and we certainly can expect to see him there. 
At present I am unable to communicate with hija because he is travelling 
about the country. 
Good luck and good licalth to both of you. I am looking forward 
to a trip of which you xind the Smithsonian may well be proud. 
Sincerely, 
ViS:I.Mc 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Ifead Ciirator 
Pepariunent of «-oology 
