HencirickXj F. L. 
■ “ C/- 
INSTITUT NATIONAL 
POUR L’ETUDE AGRONOMIQUE 
AU CONGO BELGE 
STATION DE 
MULUNGU - TSHIBINDA 
N° 2/56.- 
Mulungu, le 4. . Janvier. .I9.56*.- 
Dr Waldo Schioitt 
Head Curator 
Department of Zoology 
Smithsoniam Institution 
U.S. National Museum 
W&SHKGTOK 25 D.C. U.S.A. 
Dear Dr Schmitt, 
I have the pleasure to forviard you the kodachrcme slide of the concrete 
huts existing at Mulxxngu Experimental Station. They were build at the express 
request of the natives who did not want to live in house of the european model 
(because they had id.ndows)» We on our side \^ere not willing to leave them in the 
native type of hut which decays to easy. So we made a compraaise. The model was 
that of a native hut and the material bricks covered with aement. Ml this pro- 
ves you how difficult it is to improve the native way of living. 
We will try to grov/ more parana pine from seeds as it is too difficult and 
too expensive to have young trees sent here. 
m 
I am willing to send you duplicates of my personnal collection of grasses. 
You will ^v^l^ them ty surface mail as scmas I v/ill be back frcci Europe were 
I am goin^i^ cttrsus at Gemblotix agricultural Institute. I will be away during the 
first half of 1956. 
Yours sincerely 
F.L. HEHDRICKX 
Director. 
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