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the H. K. Mulford Co. of Philadelphia. The party consisted of Dr. 

 H. H. Riisby, of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University, 

 director and botanist, W. M. Mann, assistant custodian of hy- 

 menoptera, National Museum, assistant director, N. E. Pearson of the 

 University of Indiana, ichthyologist, O. E. White of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, botanist, G. Schultz McCarty and two Bolivian 

 students, ^Manuel Lopez and Martin Cardenas, who were detailed by 



l''G. 53. — Start of mule train, La Paz, Bolivia. 

 (Photograph by N. E. Pearson.) 



the Bolivian Government to study entomology and botany with the 

 expedition members, and was accompanied by Mr. Gordan MacCreagh 

 and J. Duval Brown, moving picture photographers, representing the 

 Amazon Film Company. 



The expedition left New York on June i, 1921, and proceeded 

 to Arica, Chile, and from there to La Paz, Bolivia, where arrange- 

 ments were made for transportation across the mountains. At Pongo 



