y 
September 16, 1955 
Air Mall 
Mr, 8ob®rt 0, McGregor 
^erican Consul General 
Leopoldville, Belgian Ck>ngo 
Dear McGregor: 
Hei^ I 8KI benind band again. It is now three weeks since I 
purchased a draft from the '^erican Eaqjress Ckaspany to defray that 
still outstanding indebtedness of |b.l5. ?arious itass of the sort 
are cropping up and I ^ not know \diat else yet be in the offing. 
There was a storage charge on the crate I sent home Cenwarren, which 
reached Washington with the shipwent made from %jtebbe. 
As regards that troublescate Him, I had assumed that Dr. Sexton 
acknowledged its safe receipt but heard fjrraB him sose days ago that 
he had not. It has been developed now and seems to be in very good 
condition. But so far I have only glimpsed the ends of a few rolls, 
Sexton* s all-fired rush to get this film heme and processed seems to 
have b^n the root of all our troubles, and the difficulties we made 
for you and otJ»rs in the Congo. 
The matter of going over the film and editing the worthwhile 
parts of it awaits the convenience of the Hational GeograpMc Society, 
which has kindly consented to do that much for the Smitlisonian as 
soon as th^ find time, about mid October. We hope they may find it 
worth showing at one of their Friday evening lectures. 
As I may have remarked to you before, I did not get all the 
shrimps and crabs I had counted on, but, at that, we did not fare so 
badly. The shrimps and crabs brought back totaled something over 
1,000, but they do not bulk as large as the figure sounds, many being 
quite small. Of fishes there are 550. The mammals have not yet been 
checked over but there must be 50 or 60 of thas. The mites, which 
were Dr, Baker*s primary concern, saved the day for us, scientifically 
and nxmierically. He tells me that th^ will yield frem 5,0CX) to 
10,000 miearosec^ic slid© mounts. Among tlw® he expects to find a 
considerable number of undescribed species and a host of new records 
of the occurrence of plant-mites in Africa. The smallest things sesae- 
ttmes become the largest frm point of view of economic importance. 
