TROPICAL RESEARCH STATION 



Kartabo, British Guiana 



REPORT FOR THE YEAR, 1920 



STAFF 



William Beebe, Director; John Tee-Van, Assistant; Inness Hartley, 

 Research Associate; Alfred Emerson, Research Associate; J. F. M. 

 Floyd, Research Associate; Clifford Pope, Research 

 Assistant; Isabel Cooper, Artist; Mabel Satter- 

 lee, Artist; Winifred J. Emerson, Lab- 

 oratory Assistant; Thomas Smo- 

 LUCHA, Photographer. 



I present herewith a brief resume of the activities during 

 the year 1920 of the Station which the Zoological Society has 

 established in British Guiana for the investigation of wild life 

 in jungle and air and water. This laboratory has found what I 

 hope is its permanent home, at Kartabo, on the point of land 

 at the junction of the Mazaruni and Cuyuni Rivers. 



This is the fourth year of the work of the Station, beginning 

 at Kalacoon in 1916, and from the present point of view the 

 choice of location could hardly have been better. 



So exactly balanced between civilization and the jungle is 

 our chosen site that within a half hour down river at H. M. Penal 

 Settlement, we have the facilities of telegraph, cable and post 

 office, and the tri-weekly service of the government steamers, 

 bringing us ice, fresh fruit and vegetables, and all the comforts 

 and luxuries which long residence in one place demands. On 

 the other hand, red baboons, peccaries and all the varied life of 

 the jungle sometimes come within a few yards of the opposite 

 side of our laboratory. 



Historically, the site of the Research Station is probably the 

 most interesting in the Colony. Four hundred yards away is 

 the little island of Kyk-over-al, which for over a century was 

 the capital of Essequibo. In the Hakluyt volumes on British 

 Guiana, and in Rodway's History are many interesting allusions 

 to "Catharbo." 



