Field Work for Invertebrates 73 



EXISTING INVERTEBRATES * 



Henry Edward Crampton, Curator 



In the latter part of May, Curator Crampton left for a trip 

 of several months through the South Seas and the Far East. 

 Letters and reports recently received indicate 

 & eI< i that by November he had successfully completed 



the first stages of his journey. Two months were 

 spent in Guam and Saipan, of the Mariana Island Group, 

 where Professor Crampton made general collections of inverte- 

 brates and continued his studies on the land mollusks of the 

 genus Partula, which he has pursued in the Society Islands 

 for several years past. He next stopped at Manila, and after 

 two weeks in Luzon, proceeded to Hongkong and Canton, 

 China. Here he delivered a series of lectures at the Canton 

 Christian College. Early in October he arrived at Bangkok, 

 Siam, whence he journeyed five hundred miles northward to 

 Chieng-mai, the principal city of northern Siam. Here he was 

 entertained by the Viceroy of that region, Prince Bovaradej, 

 and had excellent opportunities to study the highly developed 

 Lao people. Several days were spent in collecting in the 

 elevated forests of the neighboring mountains, and early in 

 November he was about to start for the Malay Peninsula and 

 Java. Thence he planned to return home by way of Australia 

 and the Samoan Islands, reaching New York about the middle 

 of February. Professor Crampton writes : 



"The contacts that have been established with many men, 

 and several institutions, out here, will prove valuable for the 

 enrichment of our departmental series. The authorities have 

 been most helpful in all places. Various lots of material have 

 been shipped back from time tq time, including the Mariana 

 Islands collections, which were the most complete." 



One shipment of these collections has been received. 



* Under the Department of Invertebrate Zoology (see also pages 215 to 218). 



