Destination: 



Preparations are in the final stages for the third nianmial 

 survey expedition to be led by Mr. and Mrs. William S. 

 Street in cooperation with Field Museum. The expedition 

 will do field research in Tiukey beginning in June. 



Against the background of the usual scientific work in 

 the Division of Mammals, two yoimg mammalogists who 

 will be members of the expedition have been involved for 

 several weeks in the many details of obtaining and packing 

 the necessary equipment and in the intense study required 

 before the survey begins. 



The expedition leaders, William S. and Janice K. Street, 

 formerly of Chicago and now of Seattle, Wash., have previ- 

 ously made mammal surveys of Iran in 1962 and Afghani- 

 stan in 1965. 



The mammalogists of the present expedition are Daniel 

 R. Womochel, a graduate student from Texas Technologi- 

 cal College, and Anthony F. DeBlase, a graduate student 

 from Oklahoma State University. 



Womochel has had two separate field work experiences 

 in the past year, one involving summer field work on lem- 

 mings in Alaska in 1967 and the other in collecting ecto- 

 parasites from southern hemisphere seals and birds in Ant- 

 arctica in the winter of 1967-68. He also participated in 

 two summer expeditions to Mexico from Michigan State 

 University in 1962 and 1963 and earned his master's degree 

 from Texas Tech with a thesis on a field study of eight native 

 species of Texas rodents. 



Anthony DeBlase, a graduate of Earlham College in 

 Richmond, Ind., has collected and banded bats in Indiana, 

 Oklahoma and Texas and will use this experience to investi- 

 gate the cave bats of Turkey. 



On the Turkish mammal survey, DeBlase will specialize 

 in study of the native predator species, including small 

 shrews, moles and hedgehogs, which prey upon insects, and 



William S. and Janice K. Street, 

 leaders of the mammal survey of 

 Turkey, have directed two previous expeditions. These photos were 

 taken during their 7962 expedition to Iran, the most extensive mam- 

 mal survey ever made in that country. 



medium-sized foxes, jackals, wildcasts and lynxes, which 

 feed upon rodents, hares and birds. 



Womochel will concentrate on the prey species of Turk- 

 ish mammals. Among the rodent species he expects to 

 study in the field and collect for further study in Chicago 

 are hamsters and gerbils. He also hopes to make observa- 

 tions in Turkey on two hoofed species which also occur in 

 Europe, the chamois and the wild sheep of the Mediter- 

 ranean Islands, Corsica and Sardinia. 



Both young scientists plan to work for doctorate degrees, 

 with dissertations on the scientific results of the expedition. 



Departure date for the expedition's mammalogists de- 

 pends upon when the S. S. Neptune, the first ship from Chi- 

 cago, reaches the eastern Mediterranean. Already aboard 

 the Neptune are the Field Museum's two specially-outfitted 

 International Harvester Travelalls. Forty wooden boxes 

 full of camping gear and the scientific equipment for collec- 

 tion of mammal specimens and for recording data in the 

 field are also on that ship. 



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