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Two new honorary research associates appointed this year, Prof. 

 D. S. Rabor of Silliman University, Philippine Islands, and Dr. Rob- 

 ert W. Ficken of the University of Maryland, carried on important 

 research. Prof. Rabor worked on the general ornithology of the Phil- 

 ippine Islands; Dr. Ficken imdertook extensive field and laboratory 

 research on the behavior of wood warblers. 



Honorary research associate Oliver L. Austin, Jr., continued his 

 technical editorial work on the two final volumes of A. C. Bent's 

 Life Histories of North American Birds. 



Dr. Doris M. Cochran, curator of reptiles and amphibians, in collab- 

 oration with Dr. C. J. Goin of Gainsville, Fla., made considerable 

 progress on a manuscript dealing with Colombian frogs. 



The curator of fishes, Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, accompanied by 

 exhibits specialist Alfred Strohlein, spent a few days in October in 

 the vicinity of Seattle, Wash., in search of a salmon-spawning area 

 that would provide material for a diorama for the planned hall of 

 cold-blooded vertebrates. They were successful and in addition 

 returned with an 89-pound octopus, donated by the Point Defiance 

 Aquarium at Tacoma. Otherwise Dr. Schultz continued his study of 

 frogfishes and his recording of shark attacks throughout the world. 



Two associate curators of the division of fishes, Drs. Robert H. 

 Gibbs, Jr., and Ernest A. Lachner, participated this year in cruises of 

 the International Indian Ocean Expedition. Dr. Gibbs was on 

 Cruise 3 of the R/V Anton Bruun^ the primary purpose of which was 

 to sample deep-sea ichthyofauna in the western Indian Ocean and to 

 relate the distributions of species and biomass to the physicochemical 

 and biological properties of the water masses sampled in a north- 

 south transect. The cruise began at Bombay on August 8 and termi- 

 nated at Port Louis, Mauritius, on September 20. Following the 

 cruise Dr. Gibbs spent 2 months vrorking at museums in Paris, Berlin, 

 Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Copenhagen. 



Dr. Lachner was on Cruise 4B of the same ship, the major objec- 

 tive of which was to evaluate the relative distribution and abundance 

 of benthic organisms inhabiting the continental shelf and upper slope 

 of the Arabian Sea. This cruise began at Bombay on November 12 

 and terminated off the Muscat coast of Arabia in mid-December. On 

 his way to and from the cruise Dr. Lachner visited institutions in 

 London, Paris, Bern, Jerusalem, Karachi, Sydney, Brisbane, Hong 

 Kong, and several places in Japan. 



Dr. Victor G. Springer, associate curator of fishes, expanded his 

 studies on sharks, completing revisions of three genera. During the 

 year he visited Stanford University and musems in Hamburg, Paris, 

 and London, studying blennioid fish types and other specimens and 

 bringing close to completion a revision of the genus Entomacrodus. 



