TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION 
Bartica District, British Guiana. 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, FOR THE YEAR 1917. 
William Beebe, Directing Curator; G. Inness Hartley, Research Associate; John 
Tee Van, Assistant; Isabel Cooper, Artist. 

OPENS to war service it was thought impossible to accom- 
plish any work during the present year at the Research 
Station of the Zoological Society in British Guiana. But dur- 
ing recovery from an airplane accident, I made a short expe- 
dition to Guiana, with Mr. Tee Van as assistant; Isabel Cooper, 
artist, and a party of Americans interested in this British Col- 
ony and the work of the Station. My purpose was to make cer- 
tain that the year’s storage had not injured the instruments, 
books and other equipment of the laboratory, and to recrate 
the more perishable paraphernalia. This was successfully ac- 
complished, and, in addition, the month of September was spent 
in intensive work. The second-growth about Kalacoon had been 
cut and burned for rubber planting, and for this and other rea- 
sons it was deemed advisable to move the entire outfit of the 
station directly across the river to the Penal Settlement, where 
the Government. through the kind offices of Messrs. Frére and 
Rolleston, placed a large building at my disposal, for use during 
the continuance of the war. This we occupied at once and for 
the succeeding month concentrated on the jungle which began 
within a hundred yards of our new home. 
Our work dealt with the specimens which, from the first 
day, began to accumulate, and with certain unfinished researches 
begun last year. Especial attention was given to birds and in- 
sects. The number of the former known to inhabit Bartica Dis- 
trict was increased from three hundred and fifty-one to over 
four hundred. This was achieved through three sources; actual 
specimens taken this year, identification of uncertain species 
secured last year, and through published records. Many inter- 
