26 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
Dr. L. P. Schultz, curator of fishes, spent 2 weeks in November 
1957 repacking and shipping the Col. John K. Howard collection of 
fishes at the University of Miami, Fla. Enroute Dr. Schultz visited 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service laboratories and university lab- 
oratories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. 
From April 7 to 11, 1958, Dr. Schultz attended a symposium in 
New Orleans, La., on the attacks made by sharks. 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, research associate, represented the Smith- 
sonian Institution at the Pan African Ornithological Congress, held 
at Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, from July 15 to 20, 1957. Over 
200 persons were in attendance, including delegates from several coun- 
tries of western Europe and from the United States, in addition to 
those engaged in investigations in this field in the various countries 
of Africa. The occasion was especially important as it was the first 
meeting of the kind on that continent. Enroute to the Congress 
there was opportunity to cross through the Wankie Game Reserve 
and afterward to spend 6 days observing the birds and mammals of 
the Kruger National Park. Following this Dr. Wetmore visited 
scientific institutions and laboratories in Johannesburg, Pretoria, 
Durban, and Capetown, Union of South Africa, and had 3 days for 
observations near Dakar in Senegal. He returned to Washington 
via Lisbon on August 13. 
In January 1958 he returned to Panama to continue field investi- 
gations of the birdlife of the Isthmus. Through the kindness of 
H. V. T. Mais, agent for the Chiriqui Land Co. in Panama, and 
G. D. Munch, manager of the Bocas del Toro Division of that com- 
pany, arrangement had been made for quarters in Almirante, Prov- 
ince of Bocas del Toro, an area not previously visited. This is an im- 
portant region for study because of species of birds found farther 
north along the Caribbean that here enter Panama and reach their 
southern limits in this section. Field equipment was shipped on 
January 13 by Cessna-180 4-passenger plane since the airport serving 
Almirante at the town of Bocas del Toro was closed temporarily to 
larger aircraft. There is no true dry season in this section of Pan- 
ama, and rains came almost daily. While the higher areas of level 
land had been cleared for cultivation, forest remained over extensive 
sections of swamp, and on the hills bordering small stream valleys, 
as well as on the large islands in Almirante Bay. 
Fieldwork continued here 2 months, with a trip each week up the 
line of railroad into the banana plantations that extend from the 
Changuinola River to Guabito on the Costa Rican border. Travel 
elsewhere from Almirante was mainly by dugout canoe powered by an 
outboard motor, with occasional trips with friends in other craft. T. 
W. Dunn was especially helpful through his knowledge of Almirante 
