20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



Kesearch Unit No. 3 for a report on the mammals of the Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan collected by the staff of that unit, Dr. Henry W. 

 Setzer, associate curator, division of mammals, devoted six weeks to 

 a study of pertinent types and other significant specimens at the 

 British Ikluseum (Natural History) in London. 



On September 1, 1953, Herbert G. Deignan, associate curator, divi- 

 sion of birds, returned to Washington after completing ornithological 

 field studies in Thailand which were made possible by grants from 

 the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and special re- 

 search funds of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, head curator, department of zoology, left for 

 Europe on April 1, 1954, and on arrival at Naples he was introduced 

 to the staff and granted permission by Dr. Eeinhard Dohrn, director, 

 to examine the collections of the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. The 

 director of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria" in Genoa, 

 Dr. F. Capra, made available the study and exhibit series of crus- 

 taceans. At the Instituto di Zoologia, Universita di Torino, by 

 courtesy of Dr. L. Pardi, director. Dr. Schmitt devoted two weeks 

 to the study of Aegla and porcellanid collections. After visiting the 

 Musee Oc^anographique de Monaco, he made a return visit to Naples 

 to obtain a number of brachiopods which had been preserved for 

 anatomical studies by Dr. G. A. Cooper of our Museum staff. While 

 visiting the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Dr. Schmitt met the 

 new director. Dr. Emil Dottreus, and identified the specimens of 

 Aegla in that institution. In Zurich, Dr. Bernard Peyer showed him 

 the well-displayed synoptic collections of the Zoologische Sammlung 

 of the university. Dr. Schmitt then proceeded to Leiden where he 

 was invited by Dr. H. Boschma, director of Eijksmuseum van Natuur- 

 lijke Historic, and Dr. Lipke Holthuis to see their collections, which 

 include the type specimens described by de Haan in the Crustacea sec- 

 tion of von Siebold's Fauna Japonica and the SnelUus South Pacific 

 collections. At Utrecht he met Dr. Wagenaar P. Hummelinck of the 

 Zoologisch Museum, Rijks Universiteit, and at Amsterdam was con- 

 ducted by Mr. T. van der Feen through the Zoologische Museum 

 where, among other important materials, are housed the famous Siboga 

 collections. He devoted a week in London to the study of the Aegla 

 specimens in the British Museum (Natural History) and another week 

 in Paris examining the carcinological collections of the Museum Na- 

 tional d'Histoire Naturelle. Through the courtesy of the director, 

 Dr. G. Tregouboff, Station Zoologique, Universite de Paris, at Ville- 

 franche-sur-Mer, he was enabled to inspect the exhibits of local ma- 

 rine flora and fauna. Dr. Schmitt returned to Washington on 

 June 22, 1954. 



During January and the early part of February Dr. Alexander 



