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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANPZOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. ^8 



San Francisco de Assisi. The holiday alone would not keep me out 

 of work, but the Custom House was open only to let our stuiT in. 

 We arrived on the fourth, and the fiesta of San Francisco lasted 

 two days, the 4th and 5th. And today the lisherman, families, etc., 

 are resting up." Collecting proved to l)e very good here, and mucli 

 fine material was procured from a point of rock jutting out into the 

 water, and from a fine reef well north of Paita. 



Dr. Schmitt left Paita October 15 and arrived at Salaverry Octo- 

 ber 17. Here the coast is just a bold surf -beaten headland with huge 

 immovable boulders. At low tide the collecting was good, and the 



Fig. 99. — Chorillos. a suburb of Lima, Peru, sbowins tlie cliffs at tlie water's 

 edge which are in some places 200 feet high. 



ex])0sed beach yielded many invertebrates. Here also worm tubes 

 were found to contain interesting and valuable specimens of Crustacea 

 and other forms. He found here a genus of shrimps not before 

 reported from the Peruvian coast, and also ])rocured a fine series 

 of fresh-water shrimps. 



On October 25 he left Salaverry, Peru, and reached Callao early 

 the next morning. I'he Ambassador, Mr. Poindexter, procured him 

 a pass to San Lorenzo Island, the naval base in Callao Pay. He luade 

 several collecting trips to the island and secured many amphipods 

 and some remarkable porcellanid cral)s, which live on the under 

 side of a sea urchin. The fine material obtained here shows how 

 much zoological work is yet to be done on this coast. 



