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Colon, Toro Point, and Porto Bello. Large collections were secured 
from both coasts. 
Besides the salt-water collecting, the work was extended to the 
fresh waters on the Pacific slope a short distance to the east and 
west of the Canal Zone, in order to obtain a better understanding 
of the distribution of the fresh-water fishes of the Pacific coast 
streams than was obtainable from the small streams opposite the 
Fic. 71—Steamer Cana of the Darien Gold Mining Co., on which a trip was 
made from Panama City to Marraganti on the Rio Tuyra, eastern Panama. 
Photograph by Goldman. 
Rio Chagres, and especially from the Rio Grande, because of the 
changes in this stream due to the work on the Canal. 
The party continued operations for about three months, and much 
help was given by the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Panama 
Railroad and Steamship Company, and the Darien Gold Mining 
Company, to all of which organizations many thanks are due. 
Upon his arrival in Panama on February 9, 1912, Mr. August 
Busck, of the Bureau of Entomology, was at once enabled to estab- 
lish headquarters in the convenient comfortable dispensary in 
