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^[[Dr. Waldo Schmitt]]
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[[image: Great Seal of the United States Of America]] DEPARTMENT OF STATE INSTRUCTION]][[/preprinted]]

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DEPT OF THE INTERIOR
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FEB 15 1956
FOREIGN ACTIVITIES FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
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[[preprinted]]NO:[[/preprinted]]  CA'-6030 February 8, 1956

[[preprinted]]SUBJECT:[[/preprinted]]  Proposed Trip to West Indies by Scientific Expedition

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[[preprinted]]TO:[[/preprinted]] PORT-OF-SPAIN, BARBADOS, CURACAO, MARTINIQUE

RPTD INFO: PARIS, LONDON

The Department has been informed by the Smithsonian Institution that the Institution is sponsoring a scientific expedition, known as the "Smithsonian-Bredin-Caribbean Expedition," which will travel through British, French, Dutch and American West Indies during March and April 1956.

The purpose of the trip is to undertake biological studies and to collect specimens of plants, insects and marine life of the Islands. It is expected the specimens obtained will supplement the present collection and add species not previously represented. This work is said to be especially desirable since information will be obtained on the distribution of plants and insects in parts of the West Indies that are little known biologically.

Four members of the staff of the United States National Museum are participating, namely, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, Head Curator of Zoology; Dr. Fenner A. Chase, Jr., Curator of Marine Invertebrates; Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, Curator of Insects; and Dr. Albert C. Smith, Curator of Phanerogams.

Three members of the party will travel from New York to Trinidad in early March on the SS ILE DE FRANCE. The fourth member, Dr. Clarke, will fly direct to Dominica and will join the expedition there.  The expedition will travel among the Islands on a chartered twin-Diesel schooner, the FREELANCE, owned and mastered by Capt. V. E. B. Nicholson of Antigua, B.W.I.  The expedition expects to visit the Grenadines, Dominica, Redonda, St. Eustatius and Saba, Curacao, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, and if time permits possibly Barbuda, Sombrero and St. Croix.

The addressee missions are requested to inform the appropriate authorities and to undertake to obtain whatever clearances may be necessary.

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[[cutoff]]ED BY: [[/preprinted]] EUR:BNA:FDTaylor/js 2/8/56 

[[preprinted]]APPROVED BY: [[/preprinted]] Earnest A. Lister

[preprinted]][[cutoff]]RANCES:[[/preprinted]]  WE —West and Lancaster 


  

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