26 ANNTJAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1960 



Scientifically, the present expedition may be counted as one of the 

 more productive of the recent expeditions under the sponsorsliip of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Bredin. The collections of the Smithsonian Institution 

 have been greatly enhanced by this important collaboration. 



Dr. David H. Johnson, curator of mammals, visited the California 

 Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, June 13-14, to obtain data 

 for the proposed dugong group in the new Hall of Oceanic Life of 

 the Museum of Natural History. He also studied the collections of 

 mammals in the Academy, finding significant specimens from Annam, 

 Korea, and Manchuria bearing upon his research projects. Subse- 

 quently, Dr. Johnson attended the annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists in Tacoma, Wash., where he had an oppor- 

 tunity to review with colleagues the manuscript report on mammals 

 collected on Ponape in connection with a project of the Pacific Science 

 Board. 



Dr. Henry W. Setzer, associate curator of mammals, spent the first 

 few days of December at the American Museum of Natural History, 

 where he familarized himself with some of the collections of the de- 

 partment of mammals. His particular interest was to make a survey 

 and a study of African mammals, particularly those belonging to 

 the genus Acomys. 



Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., associate curator of mammals, made 

 a brief trip to Fenwick Island, Del., to obtain for the National 

 Museum a skull of a young male beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris, 

 a species rarely collected. Later in September he spent five days 

 in Virginia near the mouth of the Rappahannock River, in order 

 to augment the collection he made in this mammalogically little 

 known area in May 1959. He collected approximately 70 mammals, 

 many of which are significant in working out the relationships of the 

 mammalian fauna of this isolated area, and some of which are rare 

 in Coastal Plains collections. 



During the first week of December Dr. Handley made a very 

 productive study trip to the Academy of Natural Sciences at Phila- 

 delphia, the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 

 his objective being to compare recently acquired Panamanian speci- 

 mens with types and other specimens in the respective museums. He 

 was able to develop a large body of valuable notes, and it was dis- 

 covered, surprisingly, that several of the species represented in the 

 Panamanian collections are apparently undescribed. 



Between January 12 and March 15, Dr. Handley, accompanied 

 by D. I. Rhymer, of the taxidermy shop, continued his survey of 

 the mammals of Panama, which is now in its fourth year. This 

 work is being conducted in cooperation with the Gorgas Memorial 



