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SMITHSONIAN EXPP^DITIONS. 



A brief resume of the results obtained follows : 



Biological survey of the Panama Cajial Zone. — This survey was 

 completed and the work accomplished was very valuable to science. 

 It included collections and observations of vertebrate animals, land 

 and fresh-water mollusks, and flowering plants (including gi'asses) 

 and ferns. Collections had been made of fishes, reptiles, and amphib- 

 ians, birds and mammals, and special studies and collections had 

 been made of the microscopic plant and animal life of the fresh 

 waters of the zone. Pamphlets had been issued from time to time 

 describing new forms of animals and plants, and as soon as the mass 

 of material could be worked up a more general account of the results 

 of the survey would be accomplished. 



Rainey African expedition. — The Paul J. Rainey expedition re- 

 ferred to at the last meeting came to a successful close during the 

 winter of 1911-12. Mr. Edmund Heller, a Smithsonian naturalist 

 and a member of the Smithsonian African expedition, accompanied 

 Mr. Rainey and reported collections as follows : 



Mammals (large) 750 



Mammals (small) 5,000 



Birds 400 



Reptiles 2, 000 



Miscellaneous 500 



8,650 



During the entire expedition Mr. Heller was Mr. Kainey's guest. 

 Mr. Rainey gave him all the native assistants that he could use and 

 accorded him perfect freedom as regards choice of collecting ground. 

 Mr. Heller was thus able to visit the exact regions from which ma- 

 terial was most needed to supplement that procured by the Smith- 

 sonian Afi'ican expedition. After studying the mammals in the 

 British Museum Yix. Heller reported that the United States National 

 Museum now had the finest series of East African mammals in the 

 world. 



Eighty lions were secured on the expedition, which more than 

 tripled the highest previous record for Africa. 



The Ghilds-Frick African expedition. — This expedition left New 

 York in October, 1911, and arrived at Djibouti, on the Red Sea, in 

 French Somaliland, November 22. As previously stated, it was ae- 

 companied by Col. Edgar A. Mearns, United States Army, retired, 

 who was a member of the Smithsonian African expedition. 



The Frick party traversed the territory lying north of that visited 

 by Col. Roosevelt and Mr. Rainey, covering at the same time certain 

 parts of Abyssinia, northern British East Africa, and the country 

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