Dr, Cannichael: 
Mr. Byuce Bredin, of Greenville, Delaware, a friend of long stand- 
ing, is interested in furthering scientific exploration, at this time in 
the Belgian Congo, in which area I have been somewhat interested in the 
past/ and on the crustacean fauna of which I published a small paper back 
in 1926. This, by the way, is the second time that Mr. Bredin has directed 
funds for scientific exploration my way. On that earlier occasion Mr. 
Bredin sent his brother-in-law, Mr. E. P. May, to me shortly after the 
war with plans for financing a review of Columbus' journey through the 
West Indies to the extent of $2^,000. When his yacht was returned to 
him by the Navy in such condition that the trip as originally planned could 
not be made, he did make the Institution a gift of $10,000, which enabled 
two of our staff who would have been part of the original e xped it ion to 
carry out the wark they had planned to do. 
Mr. Bredin is coming to Washington again tomorrow, prepared to give 
the Smithsonian Institution securities to the value of $20,000 as a first 
payment toward the expenses of a two-months trip (New York to New York) 
to the eastern part of the Congo that we have been discussing the last 
few weeks. 
joined in and 
The Smithsonian has/^fsxu successfully sponsored expeditions of this 
type before, and I hope is prepared to do so again in this instance; 
I shall be meeting Mr. Bredin at lunch at the Cosmos Club Thursday, 
November U, at 12:30 p.m. and hope that you will be free at the time 
so that we may go over some of the details regarding the gift. 
As planned so far, special emphasis will be placed on the study of 
the invertebrate fauna: Crustacea, land and aquatic; and insect disease 
vectors, especially mites and ticks and their ecological and host-parasite 
relations. Collecting of the large fonns of animal life, mammals and 
