38 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1964 



finished a report on the decapod crustaceans of the island of St. 

 Helena in the South Atlantic. 



Although the curator of mammals, Dr. David H. Johnson, was re- 

 sponsible for the general development of exhibits in the hall of oste- 

 ology opened at the end of the year, he found time to study the 

 distribution of hares and certain species of bats in southeastern Asia 

 and to continue his general survey of the mammals of that area. 



For the better part of the year. Dr. Henry W. Setzer, associate cura- 

 tor of mammals, directed from Washington the work in Iran and 

 southern Africa of field parties collecting mammals and their ecto- 

 parasites. This program was carried out in cooperation with the 

 Army Medical Research and Development Command. Dr. Setzer 

 joined the African party in mid-September and the Iranian party in 

 late October, staying until mid-December. His museum work con- 

 sisted chiefly of identification of mammals from Egypt and the Sudan 

 collected by a Naval Medical Research Unit. 



From January to March Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., associate 

 curator of mammals, collected specimens in the high mountains on 

 the Colombian frontier of Darien Province, Panama, obtaining among 

 other valuable materials, two species of bats new to the Panamanian 

 fauna and a number of rare marsupials, shrews, and rodents. Late in 

 June, in connection with attendance at a meeting of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists in Mexico City, Dr. Handley spent 8 days 

 studying fruit bats in the Instituto de Biologia. This filled one of 

 the last major gaps in his revision of this large and complex genus. 



Dr. Robert A. Traub of the University of Maryland Medical School, 

 honorary research associate in the division of mammals, was in Paki- 

 stan from the beginning of the fiscal year until October collecting 

 mammals and other vertebrates and their ectoparasites in continuation 

 of his studies of rickettsial infections. 



The Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, under the direction 

 of Dr. Philip S. Humphrey, curator of birds, has increased greatly 

 in scope since its inception in October 1962. Because of its concern 

 with the distribution, migrations, and ecology of central Pacific sea 

 birds, collaborative relationships have been developed with the U.S. 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, the 

 State of Hawaii Division of Fish and Game, and others. Of approxi- 

 mately 50 people employed this year on the project many were gradu- 

 ate students who were gathering data for doctoral dissertations. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has provided support for a field study 

 enabling Dr. Humphrey to work with the Belem Virus Laboratory, 

 Funda^ao Servigo Especial de Saude Publica, and tlie Museu Paraense 

 "Emilio Goeldi," Belem, Brazil. This cooperative field study deals 

 with the relationship of birds and arthropod-borne virus diseases. As 



