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narian corals in reef formation for comparison with corresponding 

 conditions elsewhere. Following completion of the survey work on 

 this atoll on November 13, 1953, Mr. Bayer proceeded to Tokyo, Japan, 

 where the Octocorallia collections of Tokyo Imperial University were 

 made available to him through the kindness of Profs. K. Takewaki 

 and T. Fujii of the Zoological Institute Science Faculty. During the 

 week following December 8, Mr. Bayer, through the courtesy of Prof. 

 Huzio Utinomi, was permitted to examine the collections of the Seto 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto Imperial University at Shira- 

 hama in Wakayama Prefecture. Subsequently at the invitation of the 

 director, Prof. Ichiro Tomiyama, he made three short trips to Misaki 

 Biological Station at Aburatsubo near Misaki on the shores of Sagami 

 Bay. Through Professor Tomiyama's office as investigator on the 

 staff of the Imperial Household, Mr. Bayer was invited to examine 

 the collections of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and 

 while there was extended the honor of an informal scientific interview 

 with His Imperial Majesty. He returned to Washington on January 

 11, 1954. 



Dr. A. C. Smith, curator, division of phanerogams, commenced field 

 studies at Suva, Fiji, under a National Science Foundation research 

 grant on March 29, 1953, and subsequently continued his studies on 

 Viti Levu, Ovalau, Ngau, and Taveuni. Historic type localities were 

 visited, but most areas explored had not been previously botanized. 

 Dr. Smith departed from Suva on January 7, 1954, and returned to 

 Washington January 30. 



Dr. E. H. Walker, associate curator, division of phanerogams, 

 attended the Eighth Pacific Science Congress in Quezon City as a 

 delegate for SIRI (Scientific Investigation of the Eyukyu Islands), 

 program of the Pacific Science Board of the National Research Coun- 

 cil and the United States Army, and made collections of herbarium 

 materials on Luzon Island in the Philippines, and in Hawaii, John- 

 ston Island, Guam, and Okinawa enroute. 



Dr. Ernest R. Sohns, associate curator, division of grasses, was 

 engaged in field work for four weeks in the fall of 1953 in the states 

 of Tlaxcala and Michoacan, Mexico. 



C. V. Morton, curator, division of ferns, under a fellowship grant 

 from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, devoted the 

 last three months of the fiscal year to a study of ferns in European 

 herbaria. In August and September 1953 he participated in the field 

 trips of the American Fern Society in New York, Quebec, and 

 Michigan. 



Fieldwork by five parties engaged in search for invertebrate and 

 vertebrate fossils was financed by the income from the Walcott be- 

 quest. Dr. A. R. Loeblich, Jr., in collaboration with Dr. Helen Tappan 



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