Van Straelen, V 
Filed: Belgian Congo 
March 25, 1955 
Dr. V. Van Straelen, President 
Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Beige 
Rue Montoyer, 21 
Bruxelles 9 Belgium 
T ‘r* Van Straelen: 
Just a word to acknowledge your letter of March h. I 
am looking forward to seeing you on the 6th of April in company 
wiuu Dr. Baker. Dr. Sexton, who is to be our more or less official 
photographer for the expedition, will be unable to be with me. 
e has to go through Lisbon in connection with a medical confer- 
ence to be held in the States later in the year. I tell you 
tris because I had wanted a photograph of Dr. Baker and myself 
conversing with you about our Congo trip as part of the scientific 
iilm we hope to produce. Have you a friend with a 16 mm. movie 
camera who could take a color picture of the three of us to- 
gether. The footage would not need to be long, but I am most 
anxious to have it, and will be only too glad to pay for his 
time ana for the film that he may expend in our behalf. 
I have just too much to do and too much to carry to bring 
along a movie camera of my own. Moreover, I haven’t' taken a 
moving picture for so long that I have never used the 16 ram 
camera. 
Here's to seeing you soon. 
Sincerely, 
WLSiLMc 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
