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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 78 



sidered a victory to have carried through the collecting trip and to 

 have secured more specimens than were collected in any previous 

 3ear." 



Mr. Graham explains that there are two Washan mountains in 

 Szechwan, one to the west and north of Alt. Omei. near Yachow. and 

 the other south of ]\It. Omei. The last Washan has precipitous sides, 

 and is the one where his collections were made. 



The illustrations show views between Kiating and Suifu, made on 

 the last part of his journey, the negatives for the earlier parts of 

 his expeditions not having been received in time for reproduction in 

 this notice. 



Fig. 2>1- — North edge uf llie central plain of Haiti, with the low, scruli- 

 covered limestone mountains which bound it. Most of the caves occur at 

 about the level of the streak of nearly bare rock seen near the middle of the 

 mountain mass. 



EXPLORATION OF HAITIAN CAVES 



During March and April, 1925, I spent about six weeks in Haiti 

 with the principal object of exploring the caves near San Michel which 

 were visited by members of the U. S. Geological Survey in March, 

 1921. Soundings made in the floors of these caves in 1921 had shown 

 the presence of rich deposits of bones of extinct vertebrates, and 

 two short papers had been published in which some of these animals 

 were described. The problem in hand was to determine the richness 

 and true nature of this fauna, and to correlate it with the faunas 

 which have been found in the cave deposits of Porto Rico, Cuba and 

 Jamaica. 



Arriving in Port-au-Prince March 3, 1925, I spent 10 days at a 

 point about 6 miles west of the city on the coast of the southern 



