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that out of a possible forty-four families, representatives of 

 thirty-nine have already been secured. 



Besides the research work carried on by members of the 

 staff, specimens have been gathered in particular cases for im- 

 mediate study elsewhere. Usually, however, requests for in- 

 definite collections, desired for study at some future time, have 

 been refused, for this is intended more especially as a Station 

 for workers in the field, and not a collecting medium. Dr. Schultz 

 of John's Hopkins is working on the embiyology of red howling 

 monkeys; Dr. Reese of the University of West Virginia on alli- 

 gators, and young electric eels have been sought for Dr. Dahlgren 

 of Princeton. 



Several collections of live animals and birds have been sent 

 to the New York Zoological Park, including a two-toed sloth, 

 several cocks-of-the-rock, a hacka, electric eels, bushmasters, 

 fer-de-lance and a young red "baboon." 



We have already delved more deeply into the wild life of 

 Kartabo, than corresponding work carried on in any tropical 

 area of equal size, and yet the more we study the living things 

 about us, the more we realize what a vast labor confronts us and 

 our successors. We have hundreds of sheets of manuscript, 

 thousands of photographs, colored plates and moving pictures, 

 but only the satisfaction of a little thorough and sincere work 

 accomplished keeps us from discouragement at the immense 

 fields of investigation still lying ahead. 



While most of the work of the Station will be brought out 

 in scientific publications of the New York Zoological Society, yet 

 the Director has felt it an equal duty to set forth some of the more 

 popular aspects in magazines and books, such as the essays in 

 "Jungle Peace" and in the later series in the Atlantic Monthly, 

 beginning with "A Tropic Garden," which deals with the George- 

 town Botanical Gardens. Eighty-six contributions from the Sta- 

 tion, both technical and popular, already have been published. 



There are two vital sources of satisfaction to the Director: 

 First, that scientists of Great Britain and other countries are 

 beginning to be interested, and to join the staff of workers, thus 

 emphasizing the international character of scientific research, 

 and refuting any consideration of the Station as solely an Ameri- 

 can undertaking. And second, the cordial relations which have 

 always existed between the British Guiana government officials 



