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Recently the better prort of six raonths, .lugust, 1925 to Januciy, 
1926, tras devoted to a field of %© South ilmerican crustacean fauna, 
under tl:© v^altOT i^atlibone Bacon ScholarsMp adm- nister« 3 d by the Sted.thsonia,n 
Institution* Tiiis ^quest was made by tJ'ie late '.Its. Tirginia iurdj'' Bacon, 
of Detroit, in laa-ory of hor son to emble studies to be imdo of the fauna 
of the countries otJier tlmn the United States. ;3uch generosity in tte 
furtiierance of zoolc^;ical research cannot receive too wide publicity, 
Ifearly three nonths wore spent collecting along the Brasilian coast, 
in tte vicini ty of Rio de Janeiro and s aitteurd . StatioxTS were 
oantos. Him i-Jao Sebastxao, where In conipaj^r with Di", 11. Ii|^rwaldt of 
tlie -„uj©u x-aulista at Sao Paulo, a most profitable ten clays fieldwork 
.ai-anapia, dao Prancisco and Plorianopolis. Qne trip w-cs mde 
was s.cait 
inlar^d to Castro, ij 
he State iarana for the purjcose of obtainir^ 
logical rarity, -leg log inten»dia, which here Wi 
to occur in great abundance. Bluronau i:; the State of Santa Cahharlna, long 
the home <S Pritz ruoller, was ^visited. Here ai*e yet to be found 
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prirmtive” microscopes witii which lie rifide all of his tfonderf^al microscopic 
obsonratiom. ^ t}« Huseu Pmlista, in sS Paulo, Iheir very considerable 
and valuable collection of unidentified ^ustacea wM l nt for further 
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lauorutory stu^p in bashington. The^Braziliaa Ifetioml lUse^un was aiee~~ 
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In Uruguay, all told, about seven veeks were spent diiefly at 
out of that yort. <^16 
ue, to la .aloma, l^Xldonado, and Bar re de '^anta lucin^- rrr.*.^ i rltml 
-entevide^tho Instituto do Pesca maintains a well equipped fisheries 
