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secure favorable and livable conditions for the staff and for their 

 work, and the results so far obtained seem to be very promising' and 

 to reflect g-reat credit on the zeal and accuracv of the observers. 



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Fig. 31. — The Loa River near Calama. 



l-K;. 32.— Hank nf llic l.na l\ivcr. 



TIM-; C()1.li.\.s-(,ar.\j:i< i-ki:\(ii coxco i-xpidi riox 



in .X'fjvcmbcr. njiCi, Mr. Alfred M. (nllins df I'hilailrlpliia 

 invited the Smitb>r»iiian Instiuuion lo |)arlici])atc in an cx|ie(bli()n 

 to the Ircncli ( nngfi willi the ()l)ject of ])r<)CurinL; a gciicial cnlkclimi 

 of vertebrates and in pari imlai' a l;<i(m1 representalii m oi' tlie great 

 a])es. -Mr. ( oihns was to l:e chief ol the expeiblii hi, wliile the gen- 



