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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  194 
  3 
  

  

  from 
  January 
  16, 
  1943, 
  to 
  June 
  1, 
  1943, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  assist 
  M. 
  W. 
  Stir- 
  

   ling, 
  Chief 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau, 
  in 
  archeological 
  excavations 
  near 
  La 
  Venta, 
  

   in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Tabasco, 
  Mexico. 
  These 
  excavations, 
  constituting 
  an 
  

   important 
  program 
  of 
  research 
  among 
  the 
  Pan 
  American 
  republics, 
  

   were 
  sponsored 
  jointly 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  and 
  the 
  Na- 
  

   tional 
  Geographic 
  Society. 
  

  

  Biology. 
  — 
  In 
  pursuance 
  of 
  the 
  program 
  for 
  the 
  furtherance 
  of 
  

   cultural 
  relations 
  with 
  scientists 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  American 
  republics 
  in 
  

   cooperation 
  with 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  State, 
  three 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  

   department 
  of 
  biology 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Remington 
  Kellogg, 
  curator 
  of 
  mammals, 
  

   Ellsworth 
  P. 
  Killip, 
  associate 
  curator 
  of 
  plants, 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Waldo 
  L. 
  

   Schmitt, 
  curator 
  of 
  marine 
  invertebrates 
  — 
  visited 
  South 
  America 
  for 
  

   periods 
  of 
  approximately 
  3 
  months 
  each. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Kellogg 
  left 
  Washington 
  on 
  March 
  2 
  for 
  Rio 
  de 
  Janeiro, 
  Brazil, 
  

   and 
  returned 
  May 
  15, 
  1943. 
  He 
  spent 
  most 
  of 
  his 
  time 
  working 
  in 
  

   collaboration 
  with 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  staff 
  at 
  the 
  Museu 
  Nacional 
  at 
  

   Rio 
  de 
  Janeiro, 
  with 
  additional 
  contacts 
  at 
  the 
  Departamento 
  de 
  

   Zoologia 
  at 
  Sao 
  Paulo 
  and 
  the 
  Museu 
  Goeldi 
  at 
  Belem. 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  

   field 
  stations 
  and 
  laboratories 
  engaged 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  and 
  control 
  of 
  

   tropical 
  diseases 
  was 
  observed, 
  particular 
  attention 
  being 
  given 
  to 
  

   research 
  work 
  involving 
  Brazilian 
  mammals 
  suspected 
  of 
  being, 
  or 
  

   known 
  to 
  be, 
  the 
  hosts 
  of 
  vectors 
  of 
  transmissible 
  diseases. 
  Through 
  

   the 
  friendly 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  Fundacao 
  Rockefeller, 
  Dr. 
  Kellogg 
  

   was 
  enabled 
  to 
  spend 
  a 
  week 
  at 
  its 
  yellow-fever 
  field 
  station 
  near 
  

   Therezopolis 
  in 
  the 
  Serra 
  das 
  Orgaos. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Killip 
  was 
  occupied 
  during 
  March, 
  April, 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  May 
  in 
  

   Venezuela. 
  Part 
  of 
  the 
  time 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  field 
  work 
  and 
  part 
  to 
  work 
  

   with 
  Dr. 
  Henri 
  Pittier, 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  Servicio 
  Botanico, 
  and 
  his 
  

   associates, 
  in 
  the 
  identification 
  of 
  large 
  collections 
  recently 
  made 
  in 
  

   little-known 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Republic. 
  Short 
  collecting 
  trips 
  were 
  made 
  

   to 
  Santa 
  Lucia 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Miranda, 
  Rancho 
  Grande 
  in 
  the 
  Parque 
  

   Nacional, 
  Barquisimeto 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  Lara, 
  and 
  El 
  Junquito 
  in 
  the 
  

   mountains 
  near 
  Caracas. 
  At 
  the 
  invitation 
  of 
  O. 
  E. 
  Nelson, 
  in 
  charge 
  

   of 
  the 
  Venezuelan 
  office 
  of 
  the 
  Rubber 
  Reserve 
  Corporation, 
  Mr. 
  Kil- 
  

   lip 
  accompanied 
  a 
  rubber-investigation 
  party 
  to 
  the 
  Rio 
  Paragua, 
  a 
  

   river 
  rising 
  in 
  the 
  Pacaraima 
  Mountains. 
  Most 
  of 
  the 
  plant 
  collecting 
  

   was 
  done 
  between 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  La 
  Paragua 
  and 
  the 
  Cerro 
  Guaiquinima, 
  

   a 
  region 
  that 
  had 
  never 
  before 
  been 
  explored 
  botanically. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Schmitt 
  left 
  Miami, 
  Fla., 
  on 
  April 
  13 
  for 
  Brazil, 
  Uruguay, 
  and 
  

   Argentina, 
  and 
  returned 
  to 
  Washington 
  on 
  June 
  30, 
  1943. 
  He 
  con- 
  

   sulted 
  with 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  staffs 
  of 
  various 
  scientific 
  institutions 
  and 
  

   spent 
  some 
  time 
  examining 
  collections, 
  particularly 
  of 
  fresh-water 
  

   crustaceans, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  have 
  considerable 
  economic 
  importance. 
  

   In 
  Brazil 
  he 
  visited 
  the 
  Museu 
  Nacional 
  in 
  Rio 
  de 
  Janeiro, 
  the 
  Univer- 
  

  

  