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study the fauna of thermal springs, as well as to make entomological 

 and botanical collections, and with them we traveled to the West 

 Coast of Sumatra, visiting the excellent zoo at Fort de Kock. 

 Through the interest of C. Grootes, Secretary to the Resident and in 

 charge of the zoo, we obtained a number of good specimens. Later 

 we went north to the Province of Atjeh, with good success. 



Toward the end of our stay Miss Barbara Lawrence, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and Congressman B. T. Cas- 

 tellow, of Georgia, visited our camp to collect and hunt in that district. 



Fig. 41. 



-Our bird department in the camp at Siantar. We arrived in 

 Washington with 115 crates of birds. 



On July 17, Mrs. Mann and Messrs. Williams and Mann made a 

 hurried trip to Bangkok, to secure gibbons and other Siamese species. 

 The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Phya Jolamark, and Phra 

 Charan, head of the Pasteur Institute, greatly assisted us in obtain- 

 ing specimens. The latter presented us with a fine collection of ven- 

 omous snakes, and we soon gathered considerable other material. 



On our return to Singapore. Crown Prince Ismail of Johore con- 

 tributed a beautiful pair of black leopards, and a Bennett's cassowary. 

 In the meantime the Departement Economische Zaken had made an 

 expedition to Komodo, in which we participated — result, a pair of 

 Komodo draeons. 



