SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
Washington 25, D. C. 
November 16, 19’$k 
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Dr, James G. Kiapin ^ CO' . iia 
Boite Postal ilJ' 
217 Bukavu . gof^ 
Belgian Cong© 
Dear Dr. Chapins 
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crossed but I have hopes that thej shall again 
in the near future. You may remember me as a contributor to the series 
o papers based on your and Lang*s early explorations in the Congo. I 
"wror ed up your shriirip and Crustacea^ other than the crabs which were re- 
ported on by Dr. Mary J. Rathbun. 
e ^ ^^ce Breden, a good friend of mine, is sponsoring, under 
anithsonian Institution auspices, a brief African expedition which will 
net us five to six weeks in the Belgian Congo. Herbert Friedmann gave 
me your two addresses, to each of which I am sending a copy of this letter 
to make sure that you get one or the other. 
There will be five of us for perhaps most of the trip. Mr. and ta* 3 . 
Bredin will be our recorders and note takers, Mrs. Bredin, however, may 
stay but a few weeks. Besides the Bredins, there will be Dr. flay Sexton, 
&q)lorers Club, an active Washington, D. G. physician, 
whose hobby IS photography. Dr. Sexton will make a color film record of 
the ejqaedition and he hopes that, during our visit to some of the National 
P^ks north of Bukavu, we can get pictures of the larger game animals and 
dances. A sound recorder to run off 
an auto batteiy will be part of our equipment. Dr. George Wharton, 
formerly of Duke Dniversity, now head of the Department of Zoology at 
Maryland University, will collect mites and ticks with their plant and 
hosts (rats, mice, stirews, bats, etc.), and some birds, 
local regulations permitting. I shall look after miscellaneous inverts- 
brates^ primarily shriii5)s and crabs© 
Xfc planned to travel throughout the Congo by auto, time penaitting. 
^ shall need two cars, one for the party of five with guide and chauffer 
and one for gear and the two assistants. Mark Evans, a local radio and 
television coiraentator, highly recommended an Eric Thornton of Bukavu to me. 
as hunter-guide. Frankly, l«m asking you about Thornton, ¥e shall not need 
f 1®. except maybe for bats and a few birds. ¥e have no desire to 
hunt big game or collect birds, yet if we go photographing the larger animals 
