ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME XIV. 



FOREWORD. 

 By W. J. Holland. 



The present volume is set aside for the presentation of a mono- 

 graphic paper on the Birds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia by 

 Messrs. W. E. Clyde Todd and M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Long before the buildings which now house the Carnegie Institute 

 were even planned, much less erected, the question of the scope and 

 special work of the Carnegie Museum was taken up and carefully dis- 

 cussed with the generous Founder by the writer, and it was decided 

 that among other things it would be especially desirable to carry on 

 researches upon the natural history and resources of tropical America. 

 Mr. Carnegie always was deeply interested in the republics of ihe 

 south, and signally evidenced his interest by the gift of the Pan-Amer- 

 ican Building in Washington, and by active participation in all efforts 

 tending to bring about friendly and harmonious relations with our 

 sister republics, which lie beneath the Southern Cross. 



At the very initiation of our work in the Museum special attention 

 was paid to these regions, and a number of competent explorers and 

 collectors were enlisted in the task of gathering material to illustrate 

 the archEeoIogy and the biology of Central and South American lands. 

 The late Mr. Herbert Huntington Smith and his accomplished wife 

 were as early as 1896 sent to Santa Marta, Colombia, to undertake the 

 making of natural history and ethnological collections. In 1903 Prof. 

 C. V. Hartman began his extensive and fruitful archaeological investi- 

 gations in Costa Rica. Mr. M. A. Carriker, Jr., shortly afterwards 



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