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is 3 Helena '.’eies, Chief , Correspondence and August 4, 1955 
Kecords 
Waldo L. Schmitt 
natural History Collections and collecting equipment returned from 
the Belgian Congo 
EegretlQifoiLy X did not make provision on the customs declaration whan 
entering Hew fork on the morning of June 26, for several pieces of 
African native handicraft included in the shipment which was to follow 
me and which was dispatched from Africa after my departure. 
Hie carton copy stub of my airplane ticket (Ho. 4641989) "Sabena" is 
so illegible that I cannot make out flight number or time; however , 
from a Catena time table, it would appear to be the Bsbena (tourist ) 
flight, SI 34? , Brussels to Hew fork, arriving about 8:30 a.m. I was 
given but one copy of form 6063, and did not make a duplicate of it, 
or note its serial number. To the best of my recollection, I declared 
thereon (1) 6 small stone scarab pendants set in gold; the lot cost 
$27 (American) in Cairo; (?) 10 small earthenware round bottom coffee 
turns itln cloth rings for holding them upright for 10 p.i. each, total 
100 p.t. (03.00 American) purchased in Khartoum. 
I hops that X may be permitted impend ay earlier declaration to include 
the articles of native handicraft referred to. These are listed on an 
accompanying sheet Par. 1798 etc., and total, in value, 3065 Congo francs 
(o $61.30). 
Unfortunately my copy of the list of contents of these boxes and crates 
has not yet arrived though it ms sent surface pouch with other papers 
from Cairo, the end of June. 1 can submit an inventory of the collecting 
gear taken out of the U.S.A. , which in part is being returned in the 
shipment in question and in part in the single crate to follow. 
Otherwise the 9 wooden chests and 3 crated telescope cases contain the 
scientific results of our African expedition, natural history and 
geologic specimens, soil samples for biotic assay, collecting equip- 
ment and Instruments, work, clothes and shoes, and some books and papers 
picked up en route, if they were not removed by the British customs 
officials in Hairobi, there are also 2 l arble dame Getters in. one of 
the crates (03 1 believe). 
In one of the chests is a "Mandolin* 1 of native manufacture (cost 460 frs, 
■5.00) belonging to Dr. Sexton, one of the members of the party. In 
his Hew fork declaration he made allowance for this, end for other 
similar items in the crate yet to come from Leopoldville, by declaring 
an unitemlsed one or two hundred dollars worth of imports. 
