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Dr. V. Vap^^r Aelen 
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ttionaux du Congo Beige 
c/cT IRSAC, t.£*_xye Kontoyer 
, Belgium 
Dear •Br» Van Strael-ew 
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Ab yQu -- havo - bccn Inforrocd^ ^he Smithsonian Institution is^^ 
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for the purpose of collecting and studying primarily the inverte- 
sponsoring the auitnsonian-Bredin Expedition to the Belgian Congo 
brate life of the region: the parasitic mites and ticks and 
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their host plants and animals, such as rodents, shrews, bats, and 
perhaps in scmte cases, unprotected Esnall birds j the Crustacea, 
terrestrial and aquatic, as well as other artl'iropods , shells, 
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fish taken at the various -esg^fe*>«*n fisheries , and such 
herpetological specimens as ma^b^pennit|bed.^ sewdl 
The^ex|>editionarj?’ part^mll consist of^^^people: ar- Mr. and - 
Mrs. P r ftd'’” H-il I ^■'hldo L. Scl^anitt of this 
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Institution, carcinologist, Ir, EdwareLBaker of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and ir. Roy Lyman Sexton, medical con- 
sultant to the party and tiis son Hoy Lyman Sexton, Jr., who with 
his father will also serve as the officia l photogr apher;^ of the. , . 4 y. 
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expedition. ’ Pt '- so happ e ii3 ~~ that Mr. and Mrss^|&r2iJ:^'lSiie' it^/y^possible 
to take part in the expedition at the outset as originally planned, 
but have high hopes of being able to Join it at abater date^ in th^^^^ 
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