accommodations if they am counting m us* 
"bug-hunters” enjoy getting together! 
Yon knot? how 
Thank you for your sonMmts and advice regarding 
clothing, ©specially as regard® raincoats. We 'shall' do 
our hast to earn© properly and adequately provided* 
Mm# as to “heavy” gear and equipment packed in chests 
It Is a pro?.) lea any my you look at it, and perhaps half 
or near half is photographic * We have sene tanks with 
preservatives, vials, bottles, and *sa$», plant press and 
driers, and a rig for concentrating soil and wl inhabit- 
ing ts^anlM# So as to get this letter on to you promptly 
I am appending a listing of our Impedimenta which is heli 
compiled while the letter is being typed* The 
strike you as rather formidable. If it proves too much to 
take with ns all at once conveniently, we may be able to 
divide it up in Stanleyville and freight some of it ahead 
fey cotss© erclal auto truck or bus lines, which move along 
faster, to Bonis (or Xrum.?) or even Costemansvi lie , to 
fee used, or picked up, at one or another of these places* 
This letter and enclosure will have boon passed upon 
fey the Mft, if not mailed fey them. Here *3 hoping that our 
two- months in the Congo will not fee too rainy t it will not 
greatly interfere with the land collecting, but will the 
native fisheries fee in operation? if not, 1 shall 
handicapped in getting river shrimp* Be 
we shall be with you before long. 
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Sincerely, 
¥&ldo Lm Schmitt 
Head curator 
I) eimr-tmer.;-. t © f y oo logy 
