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the spruce-pine district of North CaroHna and obtained good exhibi- 

 tion and study material. 



Dr. W. L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, was again 

 invited by Capt. G. Allan Hancock to accompany an expedition to the 

 Galapagos Islands and the coasts of northwestern South America 

 and Central America on the yacht Velero III. The party left Los 

 Angeles on December 30, 1933, and the cruise terminated on March 15, 

 1934. The new localities visited and the superior dredging equipment 

 provided by Captain Hancock resulted in an unusually valuable 

 collection, adding particularly to knowledge of the carcinological 

 fauna of the regions covered. 



Dr. D. C. Graham, of Szechwan, China, resumed explorations in 

 the mountains of western China, making many valuable collections, 

 chiefly of mammals and insects, at altitudes as high as 15,300 feet; 

 and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, of Bangkok, Siam, continued to gather 

 large and valuable collections of animals from various parts of that 

 country, which have added materially to the Museum's representation 

 of the Siamese fauna. 



Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, during the course of the Norcross- 

 Bartlett expedition, made extensive gatherings for the Museum of 

 marine vertebrates from Baffin Land northward to Fury and Hecla 

 Straits. 



Dr. Alan Mozley, awarded the Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling 

 scholarship under the Smithsonian Institution for the study of land 

 and fresh-water molluscan fauna of Siberia, made a 3-months' 

 expedition through the forest steppe south of Omsk. As during the 

 previous year, he spent the winter in Edinburgh working on his 

 collections. 



Dr. G. S. Myers and E. D. Reid, of the division of fishes, continued 

 field work in Virginia collecting fishes with a view to preparing a report 

 on the fishes of that State. Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, 

 as in previous years, made a short trip to the Tortugas to inspect the 

 Cerion colonies planted there. 



Except for a few days given by E. C. Leonard to collecting plants in 

 the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West 

 Virginia, the only botanical field work during the year was that of 

 Jason R. Swallen, assistant botanist in the section of grasses, under 

 the Department of Agriculture, who visited Brazil to search for grasses. 

 This work was still in progress at the close of the year and was already 

 yielding excellent results, both in extending the ranges of many 

 species and in the discovery of new ones. 



During the summer of 1933, Prof. C. E. Burt, of Southwestern 

 College, Winfield, Kans., was engaged in field work for the Museum 

 with a view to collecting a series of turtles in the southern Appalacliian 

 system to settle certain taxonomic and zoogeographical problems. 



