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  sity 
  of 
  Silo 
  Paulo 
  and 
  the 
  Departamento 
  de 
  Zoologia 
  at 
  Sao 
  Paulo, 
  and 
  

   the 
  Museu 
  Paranaense 
  in 
  Curityba. 
  In 
  Uruguay 
  he 
  studied 
  at 
  the 
  

   Museo 
  Nacional, 
  the 
  Museo 
  Instituto 
  Geologico 
  del 
  Uruguay, 
  the 
  Museo 
  

   de 
  Pedagogico 
  and 
  the 
  Museo 
  de 
  Ensefiaza 
  Secundaria 
  de 
  Univer- 
  

   sidad, 
  all 
  in 
  Montevideo, 
  and 
  the 
  museum 
  of 
  the 
  Liceo 
  in 
  Paysandu. 
  

   In 
  Argentina 
  he 
  examined 
  collections 
  and 
  visited 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museo 
  Argentino 
  de 
  Ciencias 
  Naturales 
  and 
  the 
  University 
  at 
  Buenos 
  

   Aires, 
  the 
  La 
  Plata 
  Museum 
  at 
  La 
  Plata, 
  the 
  Museo 
  Cornelio 
  Moyano 
  

   and 
  the 
  Universidad 
  de 
  Cuyo, 
  both 
  at 
  Mendoza, 
  the 
  Universidad 
  de 
  

   Cordoba 
  at 
  Cordoba, 
  and 
  the 
  Universidad 
  de 
  Tucuman 
  at 
  Tucuman. 
  

   The 
  director 
  and 
  staff 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  laboratories 
  of 
  the 
  Direccion 
  

   Regional 
  de 
  Paludismo 
  assisted 
  him 
  on 
  numerous 
  occasions 
  through- 
  

   out 
  northern 
  Argentina, 
  particularly 
  in 
  Tucuman, 
  Salta, 
  and 
  Jujuy. 
  

   His 
  field 
  work, 
  accomplished 
  when 
  time 
  and 
  other 
  obligations 
  per- 
  

   mitted, 
  included 
  studies 
  in 
  Brazil 
  at 
  Alto 
  da 
  Serra, 
  Sao 
  Paulo, 
  and 
  at 
  

   several 
  localities 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Curityba, 
  Parana, 
  in 
  Uruguay 
  at 
  

   Paso 
  de 
  los 
  Toros, 
  Salto, 
  and 
  Paysandu, 
  and 
  in 
  Argentina 
  at 
  Mendoza, 
  

   Tucuman, 
  Salta, 
  San 
  Lorenzo, 
  and 
  Quijano. 
  

  

  Philip 
  Hershkovitz, 
  who 
  before 
  the 
  outbreak 
  of 
  the 
  war 
  had 
  started 
  

   his 
  investigations 
  on 
  the 
  mammalian 
  fauna 
  of 
  the 
  northeastern 
  part 
  

   of 
  Colombia 
  under 
  the 
  Walter 
  Rathbone 
  Bacon 
  Traveling 
  Scholar- 
  

   ship, 
  between 
  June 
  30, 
  1942, 
  and 
  April 
  16, 
  1943, 
  worked 
  mainly 
  in 
  the 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Magdalena, 
  Colombia. 
  More 
  recently 
  Mr. 
  Hershko- 
  

   vitz 
  has 
  moved 
  camp 
  to 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Bolivar. 
  

  

  M. 
  A. 
  Carriker, 
  Jr., 
  under 
  the 
  W. 
  L. 
  Abbott 
  fund 
  of 
  the 
  Smith- 
  

   sonian 
  Institution, 
  continued 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Colombian 
  avifauna 
  in 
  

   northeastern 
  Colombia, 
  and 
  Walter 
  A. 
  Weber, 
  also 
  traveling 
  under 
  

   the 
  Abbott 
  fund, 
  accompanied 
  the 
  archeological 
  expedition 
  sponsored 
  

   jointly 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  and 
  the 
  National 
  Geographic 
  

   Society 
  to 
  Tabasco, 
  Mexico, 
  during 
  which 
  expedition 
  he 
  obtained 
  

   about 
  600 
  specimens 
  of 
  birds 
  for 
  the 
  Museum 
  collections. 
  Mr. 
  Weber 
  

   also 
  visited 
  the 
  Instituto 
  de 
  Biologia 
  at 
  Mexico 
  City. 
  

  

  Geology. 
  — 
  While 
  field 
  work 
  for 
  upbuilding 
  the 
  exhibits 
  has 
  been 
  

   curtailed, 
  researches 
  in 
  general 
  geology 
  were 
  increased. 
  Late 
  in 
  July 
  

   Prof. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Warthin, 
  Jr., 
  and 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  A. 
  Cooper 
  left 
  for 
  a 
  survey 
  of 
  

   Devonian 
  rocks 
  in 
  Illinois 
  and 
  adjacent 
  States. 
  The 
  purpose 
  of 
  the 
  

   trip 
  was 
  to 
  correlate 
  isolated 
  areas 
  of 
  Devonian 
  exposures 
  in 
  Illinois 
  

   with 
  the 
  better-known 
  sequences 
  in 
  Missouri 
  and 
  Iowa, 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  

   first 
  time 
  such 
  correlations 
  were 
  established 
  in 
  that 
  promising 
  area 
  

   for 
  new 
  oil 
  fields. 
  After 
  the 
  return 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Warthin, 
  Dr. 
  Cooper 
  went 
  

   to 
  southeastern 
  Missouri 
  to 
  report 
  on 
  a 
  deposit 
  from 
  which 
  several 
  

   bones 
  of 
  a 
  dinosaur 
  had 
  been 
  taken. 
  

  

  Later 
  in 
  the 
  year, 
  under 
  the 
  cooperative 
  work 
  between 
  the 
  Depart- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  State 
  and 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  result 
  of 
  a 
  

  

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