yes, reserachers are allowed. Everybody who’s interested in this stuff is allowed. You have to make an appointment and then you get the possibility to search the boxes you’d like to. But you are not allowed to stay in the archive room alone. Glaizot (or another museum employee) gives you the box (one at a time) and then you go into a another room for studying.

The possibility that those documents will ever be scanned and even put online is low.

As you may know, two new Heuvelmans books were recently published. Some more will follow cause he has more manuscripts: one about unusual bears of Africa and two about hominids. I don’t know when but they will be published in future.

I will definately return to the museum (maybe in August or September). Does anybody have any suggestions, ideas or wishes what I should look for?

Just some questions I have.

I remember when I was in junior high that I borrowed from the Clarion Free Library in PA “On the Track of Unknown Animals” and also “In the Wake of the Sea Serpents”…those books were up my alley…”The Dragon that Saint George Did Not Kill” was a great chapter title…and “Apes in Green Hell” another…

Earlier on, when I lived elsewhere, I also remember reading Gardner Soule’s monster series…”The Maybe Monsters,” “The Mystery Monsters,” and “On the Track of the Abominable Snowman”….

The “ethiopienne” volume appears to show a woman with a large albino snake

I agree as it says Serpents at the bottom.