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Colon, Toro Point, and Porto Pello. Large collections were secured 

 from both coasts. 



Besides the salt-water collecting, the work was extended to the 

 fresh waters on the Pacific slope a short distance to the east and 

 west of the Canal Zone, in order to obtain a better understanding 

 of the distribution of the fresh-water fishes of the Pacific coast 

 streams than was obtainable from the small streams opposite the 





Fig. 71. — Steamer ('<///<; of the Darien Gold Mining Co.. on which a trip was 

 made from Panama City to Marraganti on the Rio Tuyra, eastern Panama. 

 Photograph by Goldman, 



Rio Chagres, and especially from the Kin Grande, because of the 

 changes in this stream due to the work on the Canal. 



The party continued operations for about three months, and much 

 help was given by the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Panama 

 Railroad and Steamship Company, and the Darien Gold Mining 

 ( Company, to all of which organizations many thanks are due. 



Upon his arrival in Panama on February <). [912, Mr. August 

 Busck, of the Bureau of Entomology, was at once enabled to estab- 

 lish headquarters in the convenient comfortable dispensary in 



