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secure tavoral:)le and livable conciitions for the staff and for their 

 work, and the results so far obtained seem to be very proniisini^" and 

 to reflect oreat credit on the zeal and accuracy of the observers. 



Fig. 31. — The Loa River near Calama. 



P'lG. 32. — Bank of tlie Loa River. 



THR COLLIXS-CARXER FRENCH CONGO EXPEDITION 



In Xovember. 1916, Mr. Alfred M. Collins of Philadelphia 

 invited the Smithsonian Institution to participate in an exj^edition 

 to the hVench Con^o with the object of procurini^.^- a .general collection 

 of vertebrates and in particular a good rei)resentation of the great 

 apes. Mr. Collins was to be chief of the expedition, while the gen- 

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