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ployed to assist in making the collections. Though clearings were 

 extensive, much forest still remained and birds were abundant. The 

 work centered mainly at intermediate elevations between 4,000 and 

 6,000 feet in the subtropical zone. Many areas could be reached over 

 rough mountain roads and trails by jeep so that the collections 

 obtained covered an extensive terrain. The work included a week at 

 Santa Clara, about 15 miles from the Costa Rican border, where the 

 party had accommodations at the farm of Alois Hartmann, long a 

 resident of Chiriqui. The series of specimens and the notes obtained 

 have added measurably to knowledge of the birdlife of the Republic, 

 and it is hoped to continue the study for another season at higher 

 elevations on the Volcan Baru. In February Dr. Wetmore spent two 

 days on Barro Colorado Island, and at the close of the work the first 

 week in April he made observations at several points adjacent to the 

 Canal Zone. 



From May 29 to June 12 Dr. Wetmore represented the Smithsonian 

 Institution and the United States National Museum at the Eleventh 

 International Ornithological Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. 

 Following the meetings he was engaged briefly in studies of the scien- 

 tific collections of birds in the Naturhistorische Museum in Viemia, 

 and for a period of 5 weeks in the British Museum (Natural History) 

 in London. 



Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, curator, division of fishes, was awarded a 

 grant by the National Science Foundation to attend the Eighth Pacific 

 Science Congress in Quezon City, Philippine Islands. Enroute he 

 visited the Zoological Institute, the National Museum of Science, the 

 Institute for Natural Resources, and the Tokaiku Suisan Kenkyiyo 

 (Fisheries Experimental Station) in Tokyo. Following the con- 

 clusion of the sessions of this congress on November 28, 1953, Dr. 

 Schultz visited the Indian Museum, Zoological Survey of India at 

 Calcutta, the University of Istanbul and the Hydrobiological Institute 

 at Istanbul, the Laboratorio Centrale di Idrobiologia at Rome, the 

 Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle and the Laboratory of Colonial 

 Fishes at Paris, and the British Museum (Natural History) at Lon- 

 don. He returned to Washington on December 14, 1953. 



Frederick M. Bayer, associate curator, division of marine inverte- 

 brates, left Washington on September 1, 1953, to join the Fourth 

 Pacific Atoll Survey Team sponsored by the Pacific Science Board of 

 the National Research Council and to participate in a general ecologi- 

 cal survey of Ifaluk Atoll in the Caroline Islands. In addition to 

 obtaining extensive collections of marine invertebrates, which are 

 indispensable to a thorough analysis of the biological zonation pat- 

 terns and the determination of zoogeographical relationships, Mr. 

 Bayer made observations on biological associations at all levels from 

 commensalism to parasitism and studied the role played by alcyo- 



