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striking examples of what can be done in the mid-tropics. 

 The governor of Para and his charming wife were more 

 than kind. 



Cherrie and Miller spent the day at the really capital 

 zoological gardens, with the curator, Miss Snethlage. 

 Miss Snethlage, a German lady, is a first-rate field and 

 closet naturalist, and an explorer of note, who has gone 

 on foot from the Xingu to the Tapajos. Most wisely she 

 has confined the Belen zoo to the animals of the lower 

 Amazon valley, and in consequence I know of no better 

 local zoological gardens. She has an invaluable collec- 

 tion of birds and mammals of the region; and it was a 

 privilege to meet her and talk with her. 



We also met Professor Farrabee, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, the ethnologist. He had just finished a 

 very difficult and important trip, from Manaos by the Rio 

 Branco to the highlands of Guiana, across them on foot, 

 and down to the seacoast of British Guiana. He is an 

 admirable representative of the men who are now open- 

 ing South America to scientific knowledge. 



On May 7 we bade good-by to our kind Brazilian 

 friends and sailed northward for Barbadoes and New 

 York. 



Zoologically the trip had been a thorough success. 

 Qierrie and Miller had collected over twenty-five hun- 

 dred birds, about five hundred mammals, and a few rep- 

 tiles, batrachians, and fishes. Many of them were new 

 to science; for much of the region traversed had never 

 previously been worked by any scientific collector. 



Of course, the most important work we did was the 



