^ STANDARD FORM NO. 64 
Office ]SA.emorandum 
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 
TO : Dr. Leonard Carmichael ^ 1*^ date; September 7, 1955 
through Dr. J?Sllogg \Sr^ 
FROM : Waldo L. SchralttNjT^ 
SUBJECT: Soil samples irom Mlgian Congo Expedition 
At the suggestion qp Dr. Fred A. Barclay-j a good friend of our fomer 
Head Curator of Botany, Ellsworth Killip, I saved for biotic assay a 
number of soil samples secured in the course of the Bredin-Congo Expedition, 
I would like to offer them to Dr, George ¥, Mast of the Nepera Chemical 
Company, Yonkers 2, New York, with which Dr. Barclay is associated. These 
samples are in Washington in the custody of Dr, Willis H. Wheeler of the 
Department of Agriculture, which will release them for such examination 
providing the recipient will exercise the safeguards required of the 
Department for unfumigated soil and plant material. 
Before writing to Dr, Mast I would like to ask your advice regarding 
stipulations that we might care to make regarding these samples. Insofar 
as our interest in them is concerned I, personally, think that the 
Institution, for the Bredin Fund, should be entitled to a reasonable share 
of any profits resulting from **dis cover! es” in these samples. It is well 
understood that an examination of material of this sort can be an expensive 
proposition and, at best, a gamble. Tsfould you care to offer the samples . 
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to Dr. Mast or should I? 
A draft of a letter that might be sent him is attached* 
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