January 2k, 19S'5 
Dr. P. H. Vercammen-Grandjean 
Laboratoire Medical 
Province du Kivu 
Bukavu , Congo Beige 
Dear Dr. Grand, lean: 
Forgive me for not acknowledging sooner your very kind 
letter of December 2, 195k, I have been wanting to write 
you ever since its receipt but have just now found time on 
the eve of departing for California for a two weeks business 
trip. I cannot begin to tell you what a great help your 
letter was and, although I have written to Dr. Van Straelen, 
I have yet to address Mr. Hendrickx, Mr. Marlier , and others 
whom you suggested to me. You deserve more than these belated 
thanks and I will try to express my gratitude to you when I 
see you in Bukavu. This should be, as you will see from the 
enclosed itinerary which I worked out with Dr. Roger Coustry, 
some thirty-eight days after our landing in Matadi. We leave 
New York, Relgian-African Line, on March 26. 
I shall write you again when I return from my present 
trip to California. 
Sincerely yours. 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
Head Curator 
Dept, of Zoology 
Enc. 
WLS:vb 
