REGISTER OF PHOTOGRAPHS RECEIVED IN 1895. 501 



1225 (47). Costa Eica. Ira Zu volcano; a wave of clouds slowly rolls over the 



crater suspending photographic operations. 



1226 (48). View of Panama bay, showing islands of Naos in distance; modern 



erosion on right and littoral debris in foreground. 



1227 (49). Hicaron island, in Pacific ocean, showing topographic features and 



modern erosion described by Mr Hill in paper on Panama. 



1228 (50). Colon. Front, Panama railway buildings, showing church. Colonel 



Richard Wintersmith and United States Consul Pearcy in foreground. 



1229 (51). Colon. Front, Panama railway buildings, showing monument erected 



to Aspinwall and Stevens, the chief promoters of the Panama Rail- 

 way Company. 



1230 (1). ''Buccaneering." Old Panama,- settled in 1518 by the Spaniards; de- 



stro3^ed by English buccaneers under Morgan in 1671. This tower 

 alone remains to mark the site of the great city of the first century 

 of Spanish conquest. 



1231 (2). Panama. " Cerro Ancon," 600 feet high. Part of the hospital build- 



ing of the Panama Canal Company in foreground. 



1232 (3). Panama. "Anton's Folly." The palatial residence built by a former 



assistant superintendent of the canal company. His wife and two 

 children having died in this building of indigenous diseases, he shot 

 his coach horses and returned to France. 



1233 (4). Panama. Interior of ruins of old cathedral, said to be over 100 years 



old. In the back of the pictuce will be seen a brick arch of about 30 

 feet span and less than 4 feet spring. The preservation of this arch 

 testifies to the freedom of this region from serious earthquake dis- 

 turbances. 



1234 (5). Panama bay. The island of Taboga, famous for exquisite pineapples; 



the high bench on the left-hand side of the picture is a poor illustra- 

 tion of a persistent topographic feature of the Pacific coast. 



1235 (6), Panama bay. The island of Naos; terminus of the Pacific Mail line, 



showing shops and buildings. 



1236 (7). Colon. Residence of the superintendent of the Panama Railway Com- 



pany at entrance of Limon bay. 



1237 (8). Colon. Re^^idence of "El Poblacion," showing Jamaica negroes and 



ready made farm-houses with corrugated-iron roofs ; a public carriage 

 is also seen. 



1238 (9). Colon. Driveway of Cristofer Colon ; the Panama canal suburb. The 



ground is made from debris of the canal dumped into the bay. 



1239 (10). Colon. A dredge of the Panama Canal Company. 



1240 (11). Panama canal, showing a portion of the 15 kilometers lying between 



Colon and Bujio, situated near the hills in background. The dredg- 

 ing has been continued to completion since this picture was taken. 



1241 (12). Isthmus of Panama. A social gathering at Frijoles. The ladies have 



their weekly washing bees, during which the current news is dis- 

 seminated. With two exceptions these women are Jamaica negresses, 

 the chief laborers of the tropics. 



1242 (13). Canal cutting through massive basaltic rock near San Pabloa. 



1243 (14). Canal cutting through massive igneous rock near Paraiso. 



1244 (15). Dredges in the Panama canal. 



1245 (16). Scene on the Rio Chagres. 



LX— Bull Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 7, 1895. 



