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NEW APPOINTMENTS; 
Guard : 
Edward J. King 
Samuel J. Duncan 
William F. Steiner 
File Clerk; 
Evelyn B. Stewart 
Ethnologist: 
William C. Sturtevant 
Library Assistant: 
Glenn H. Borders 
Sheetmetal Worker: 
Lionel A. Sweitzer 
Laborer: 
Ellen G« Hardy 
Clerk-Stenographer : 
Annie Laurie Black 
Jane J. Cromer 
Storekeeping clerk: 
Ollie A. Turman 
Policeman: 
Wallace J. Armstrong 
Illustrator : 
Patricia J. Isham 
Secretary: 
Beulah G. Moore 
SEPARATIONS: 
Frances Antonakos 
Lawrence H. Merritt 
John A. Seitz 
Juan M. Garcia 
Edgar C. Burton 
Charles Semple 
Oliver K. Tyler 
Peggy M. Growl 
Ceclia W. Stein 
Dorothea S. Michelman 
John W. Harvey 
Patricia A. Kelly 
TESTIFIES IN SMUGGLING CASE 
Dr. Herbert Friedmann, cura- 
tor of birds, recently returned 
from Jefferson, Texas, where he 
testified as a bird expert in a 
parrot-smuggling case. 
The curator left Washington 
on Sunday, April 1, and returned 
on Wednesday April 4. On Monday 
and Tuesday he sat in a hallway 
outside the courtroom, except for 
a 15 -minute interval when he went 
inside and testified that "exhibit 
A" was not a native of the United 
States . 
Dr. Friedmann says he believeB 
his testimony was outstanding in 
that he was the only witness for 
the prosecution who was not a re- 
formed bird- smuggler . But we 
think he meant he was the only 
government witness at the trial 
who had never been a smuggler. 
NEWS FROM THE CARIBBEAN 
Word reaches us now and then 
from the Smithsonian-Bredin Ex- 
pedition down in the West Indies. 
The group consists of Dr. Waldo L. 
Schmitt, head curator of zoology; 
Dr. Fenner A. Chace, Jr., curator 
of marine invertebrates; Dr. J.F. 
Gates Clarke, curator of insects; 
and Dr. A.C. Smith, curator of 
phanerogams . 
Sailing from New York on 
March 2 by regular steamship, they 
met their chartered yacht, the 
Freelance, in Port-df-Spain, Trin- 
idad, a few days later. They are 
now working their way up through 
the islands, visiting a number of 
obscure ones as well as the better- 
known ones, to Puerto Rico. From 
Puerto Rico they will return home, 
probably by freighter, about May 1. 
Following are excerpts from 
two of Dr. Schmitt's recent let- 
ters: 
"Port Castries, St. Lucia, 
March 20, 1956.... We have been 
