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Your organization, without question, is staffed with as fine a 
group of young, able, efficient, and prepossessing young men as it has 
ever been my good fortune to meet anywhere. One is tempted to ask, 
"Where do you get them?" But the answer is only too obvious, "We 
produce than." That’s fine, but it is after all the very wonderful 
merit system that you maintain that gives them their due reward, and 
places them in the high positions they so satisfactorily fill. I have 
nothing but praise for your staff at home and in the Congo. 
I thank you. Dr. van Straelen and your organization for all that 
was done for us in the Congo. 
I can say little about the motion pictures we took because our 
National Geographic Society, which has promised to look over and edit 
them, doesn’t want them handled until they can attend to the matter 
four weeks hence. 
It goes without saying that I would love to revisit Belgium, 
especially Brussels, and of course the Congo, -both where I was this 
trip and the other parts of it that we did not have time to see. You 
will hear from me again if I can ever raise the "wind”, the funds that 
would make it possible. 
My very best to you and your wife and our mutual friends, both 
at the Institute and 'in the Congo. 
Sincerely, 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
Enc. 
WLSsvb 
