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collected, Dr. Chace, our Curator of Marine Invertebrates, contributes 
some interesting remarks. These you will find enclosed. 
The fish and mammals are in the process of being identified, but 
are not yet ready to be reported upon. The specimens of the former 
brought back totaled about 0^0 j the latter about 63, including fine 
series of at least 3 species of bats. As you know, 93 bottom samples 
were forwarded to Dr. Dale E. Wolf of your Grasselli Chemicals Depart- 
ment Experiment Station, who received them on January 9. We hope that 
some worthwhile antibiotic may be recovered from one or more of them. 
Drs. Chace, Smith and Schmitt will meet Captain Nicholson in 
Trinidad on March 12, sailing the next day for the Grenadines? Dr. 
Clarke, who is flying down as far as Dominica, will be picked up 
there at the first opportunity, and, unless we hear from you to the 
contrary, they expect to rendevouz with you in Antigua on or about 
April 1 . Is that the date you plan to arrive there? If later, a bit 
more time could be devoted to islands farther south, if on that date 
the extra time could profitably be spent collecting about the various 
British and American Virgin Islands. 
I am still mindful of your kind invitation to meet you in St. 
Thomas for that visit to Tortola, and when you know more definitely 
when you approach that stage in the cruise, I shall try to arrange 
to join you, if at all possible. I must confess ray calendar does not 
hold forth much promise, but we cannot now foresee the shifts I may be 
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able to make when the time draws near 
We are highly appreciative of""what. you did to make the Belgian 
Congo IScpe di tipn possible and successful. It'ifag veiy much to the 
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Smithsonian Institution 1 ® interest and materially enhanced its scien- 
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