TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION 
Kartabo, British Guiana 
REPORT FOR THE YEAR, 1920 
STAFF 
WILLIAM BEEBE, Director; JOHN TEE-VAN, Assistant; INNESS HARTLEY, 
Research Associate; ALFRED EMERSON, Research Associate; J. F. M. 
FLoyp, Research Associate; CLIFFORD POPE, Research 
Assistant; ISABEL COOPER, Artist; MABEL SATTER- 
LEE, Artist; WINIFRED J. EMERSON, Lab- 
oratory Assistant; THOMAS SMo- 
LUCHA, Photographer. 
I present herewith a brief resume of the activities during 
the year 1920 of the Station which the Zoological Society has 
established in British Guiana for the investigation of wild life 
in jungle and air and water. This laboratory has found what I 
hope is its permanent home, at Kartabo, on the point of land 
at the junction of the Mazaruni and Cuyuni Rivers. 
This is the fourth year of the work of the Station, beginning 
at Kalacoon in 1916, and from the present point of view the 
choice of location could hardly have been better. 
So exactly balanced between civilization and the jungle is 
our chosen site that within a half hour down river at H. M. Penal 
Settlement, we have the facilities of telegraph, cable and post 
office, and the tri-weekly service of the government steamers, 
bringing us ice, fresh fruit and vegetables, and all the comforts 
and luxuries which long residence in one place demands. On 
the other hand, red baboons, peccaries and all the varied life of 
the jungle sometimes come within a few yards of the opposite 
side of our laboratory. 
Historically, the site of the Research Station is probably the 
most interesting in the Colony. Four hundred yards away is 
the little island of Kyk-over-al, which for over a century was 
the capital of Essequibo. In the Hakluyt volumes on British 
Guiana, and in Rodway’s History are many interesting allusions 
to “Catharbo.” 
