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gists’ Union at Cape May, N.J. In November he studied and de- 
scribed the African viduine weaverbirds at Yale University and 
the American Museum of Natural History in order to complete his 
manuscript on this group. 
On June 4, 1958, Dr. Henry W. Setzer, associate curator of mam- 
mals, returned from an extended field trip in North Africa. The 
first 2 weeks of May he spent excavating burrows of rodents in the 
vicinity of Wadi Natroun, Faiyum Province, and near the village of 
Abu Rawash. From May 17 to 24 he collected mammals in the 
vicinity of St. Catherine’s Monastery in southern Sinai. The last 
week was spent in the Delta and eastern desert region. 
From January 15 to March 15, 1958, Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., 
associate curator of mammals, continued his mammal survey of 
Panama, which yielded over 700 specimens of mammals. Several 
species new to Panama were collected, and evidence was obtained to 
show that there is more mingling of South and Central American 
faunas in the isthmus than was heretofore suspected. In November 
1957 Dr. Handley studied the greater and lesser pigmy sperm whales 
at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and at the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History. In September 1957 he spent 2 
weeks with museum aides J. L. Paradiso and B. R. Feinstein collect- 
ing smal] mammals along the Clinch Mountain range in southwestern 
Virginia. In March 1958 Mr. Paradiso roughed out and shipped to 
the Museum from Vero Beach, Fla., the skeleton of a beaked whale. 
From July 5 to August 4, 1957, Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, curator 
of insects, visited Europe principally to pack and ship a large col- 
lection of insects assembled by Eng. F. Tippmann in Vienna, 
Austria. In England he conferred with the entomologists at the 
British Museum. In January 1958 Dr. Clarke spent 2 days at St. 
Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., where he acquired the John 
Buys collection of leafhoppers (Cicadellidae), which contains speci- 
mens from Formosa and new forms from Honduras heretofore not 
represented in the Museum. On May 5, 1958, he returned from an 
extensive collecting trip on the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Ex- 
pedition. He accompanied the leader of the expedition, Dr. Waldo 
L. Schmitt, former head curator of zoology, and now research associ- 
ate. ‘This expedition was made possible through the continued gen- 
erosity of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Bredin, of Greenville, Del. For 6 
weeks the scientists were enabled to collect zoological specimens among 
the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. 
Two and a half weeks were spent by Dr. R. E. Crabill, Jr., associate 
curator of insects, studying type specimens at Harvard and collect- 
ing myriapods and spiders in Massachusetts, Vermont, and the Lake 
Placid section of New York. 
