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collecting at Are. During this work he ascended the Areskutan, 

 a mountain r),000 foot high, wlioro Zottorstedt, 100 years heforo, had 

 made important entomological collections. 



Doctor Aldrich left Washington on May 15, 1930, for a collecting 

 trip to the liigh altitudes of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and north- 

 ern California, a journe}' on which he was absent at the end of the 

 fiscal year. 



Mr. H. II. Shamel, of the division of mammals, was detailed for 

 about three weeks in May, 1*J30, to collect natural history specimens 

 in southwestern Missouri and eastern Kansas. Twenty days were 

 spent in Barry and McDonald Counties, Mo., and a few days in 

 MontgouKuy and Harvey Counties, Kans. The collection obtained 

 included 65 mammals, 399 fishes, M birds, and between 100 and 125 

 reptiles, invertebrates, and insects, as well as three living mammals 

 for the National Zoological Park. Tiie black-tailed jack rabbit 

 obtained in Barry County, Mo., was of interest as it is said to have 

 been in this region for only about 20 years, though previously re- 

 corded for IMissouri from Vernon County. 



E. D, Reid, of the division of fishes, was detailed from March 20 

 to April 12, 1930, to make collections of fresh-water animals in the 

 highlands of Nortli Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. He secured 

 a fine lot of amphibians. 



E. P. Killip, associate curator of plants, accompanied by Mr. 

 Albert C. Smith and Mr. W. J. Dennis, made an extended journey 

 to eastern Peru and Amazonian Brazil, remaining in the field from 

 April 9, 1929, to November 15, 1929. The expedition, under the 

 Smithsonian Institution, made general botanical collections and in- 

 vestigated especially the various plants used as fish poisons. The 

 New York Botanical Garden cooperated in the project by allowing 

 Mr. Smith, a member of the Garden staff, leave of absence for the 

 work. Nearly 27,000 specimens were collected, and such studies as 

 have been made to date show that a large number of novelties were 

 obtained. ]^Iany species have never before been brought back to 

 American herbaria. 



Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, custodian of the grass herbarium, spent the 

 months from July to October, 1929, in South and East Africa, col- 

 lecting and studying grasses. He visited Cape Colony, Transvaal, 

 Portuguese East Africa, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Kenya, and Uganda, 

 obtaining a large number of specimens. He was an olticially invited 

 guest of the British Association for the Advanoement of Science 

 meeting in South Africa. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, of the grass herbarium, made an expedition to 

 Brazil during the montiis October to May, visiting the States of Rio 

 de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Minas Geraes, Goyaz, Sao Paulo, and 

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