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Florida it will be possible to secure the sympathy of interested peo- 

 l)le to make further plantings among these keys and to have them 

 secure from harm. 



During the trip northward from Key West to Miami stops were 

 made at a number of places not before visited and collections of 

 the native Ccr'ion incanum were obtained. 



At the Tortugas Dr. Bartsch exposed 2,400 feet of moving - 

 ])icture film among the coral reefs undersea, securing a series of 

 pictures showing faunal associations of marine organisms in situ. 



As in former years, Df. Bartsch kept account of the birds ob- 

 served at the Tortugas from day to day, as well as on the other keys 

 visited. 



STUDY OF THE CRUSTACEANS OF SOUTH AMERICA 



As noted in the Smithsonian Exploration Pamphlet for 1925,* 

 Dr. ^^'aldo L. Schmitt, curator of the division of marine invertebrates, 

 V. S. National Museum, the holder of the Walter Rathbone Bacon 

 Travelling Scholarshi]^ visited South America for the ]wrpose 

 of studying the crustacean fauna of the continent. His activities from 

 August 1 until Novem1)er 2, 1925, when he arrived at Itajahy, 

 Jirazil, were reported on last year. After a short sojourn at that 

 port, he proceeded to Florianoi)olis, Brazil, where he made valuable 

 collections. He next visited Montevideo, LVuguay. arriving No- 

 vember 10. Here Dr. Schmitt met Dr. Florentino Felippone, a cor- 

 respondent of the V. S. National Museum, who showed him every 

 courtesy and aidefl his work in many ways. Flere also, through the 

 assistance of Sehor Tremolaras, arrangements were made for ob- 

 taining rheas for the National Zoological Park at Washington. He 

 arrived at Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 14 and prf)cured from 

 the Buenos Aires Museum the loan of a valuable collection of 

 Crustacea. At this point it was found impracticable to proceed to 

 Punta Arenas, Chile, as he had planned. On January 19 he returned 

 to Santos, Brazil, and went by train to Sao Paulo where he visited 

 the Instituto Butantan and obtained a collection of living Brazilian 

 reptiles. On January 21 he embarked at Rio de Janeiro for New 

 York, where he arrived February i. 



This year Dr. Schmitt is devoting his studies chiefly to the west 

 coast. He left New York August 19, arriving at Cristobal, at the 

 Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal, August 25. At Panama 

 Dr. Schmitt had the pleasure of meeting Mr. James Zetek, resident 



* Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 78, No. i, pp. 40-44- 



