INSTITUT POUR LA 
RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE 
EN AFRIQUE CENTRALE 
INSTITUUT VO OR 
WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK 
IN CENTRAAL AFRIKA 
Dear Dr. Schmitt, 
Chapin and I are rejoiced to hear about your 
definite plans. I answered Dr. Carmichael at length and 
am only confirming hereby that we expect you at Lwiro 
aO miles north of Bukavu on the Kisenyi road around 
noontime on Lay the 13th. 
Please send your answer about the skinner whom 
I could lend you from Stanleyville on. There is the head taxi 
dermist, an African fluent in french, of Dr. Firlct our 
Kammalogist (rodents mostly) and will be of great use in 
many ways . We have here many rodents ectoparasites waiti 
to be determined. We would gladly make an arrangement wi 
you about them. 
Cordially as ever. 
Director . 
Dr. Schmitt, 
Smithsonian Institution 
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