Western Atlantic Ocean. Curator Loren P. Woods again 

 participated in co-operative field work with the United States Fish 

 and Wildlife Service on the research vessel Oregon (September 

 through October), as he did in 1958 and 1957 (see page 36). This 

 year the Oregon trawled in the waters of the West Indies, especially 

 off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, to explore for commercial 

 shrimps. However the fish brought up in the trawls from depths 

 ranging from 17 to 380 fathoms were rich in new species. 



Egypt. Research Associate Harry Hoogstraal, still stationed 

 in Egypt, continued to send us specimens of many kinds of animals. 

 Associate Curator Melvin A. Traylor, Jr., joined him for six weeks 

 (April and May) as the guest of United States Naval Medical Re- 

 search Unit No. 3 in order to study the resident and migratory 

 birds that are hosts to arthropod-borne diseases and as such are 

 of particular importance to Hoogstraal's studies (see page 36). 



Belgian Congo. Curator Robert F. Inger made a trip (Feb- 

 ruary through May) to Garamba National Park in the savanna 

 country of extreme northeastern Belgian Congo to study the ecol- 

 ogy and behavior of the frogs and toads there (see page 36) . This 

 was part of a larger project that included reporting on a large col- 

 lection of these animals at the request of the Institut des Pares 

 Nationaux du Congo Beige. 



Nepal. Field Associate Robert L. Fleming's activities in- 

 cluded a trip from his mission headquarters at Kathmandu to 

 far western Nepal to study the distribution of birds there. 



Malaya. After Curator D. D wight Davis participated in the 

 Darwin- Wallace Centenary Science Congress at the University of 

 Malaya, Singapore, in December, 1958 (see Annual Report 1958, 

 page 85), he and Dr. John R. Hendrickson of the University of 

 Malaya spent January and part of February studying and col- 

 lecting in the rain forests of Malaya (see page 36). They visited 

 various points from King George V National Park in the north 

 to the vicinity of Singapore Island. 



Philippine Islands. After a year of study in the United 

 States (1958) Associate D. S. Rabor was back in the Philippines 

 and made a trip (March through April) into far northern Luzon 

 where he collected birds. 



Division of Mammals. Completion of the first draft of the 

 checklist of South American mammals by Curator Philip Hersh- 

 kovitz (aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation) 

 marks the end of one phase of this comprehensive survey. Results 

 of further revisions of classifications, relationships, and distribution, 

 which have resulted in short papers on some rodents, deer, carni- 



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