STUDY OP THE CEUSTACBAITS OP SOUTH AlvIERICA. 
\ 
In the three years ifiat my incumhency of the 
cholarship of the! Smithsonian Institution l^-''enahled me 
Rathhone Bac 
tudies necessasy for the coijsuftmation of a proper 
r the coaets of South America 
.ave 
monograph on the llacruran fau 
joys that must haire guided and 
fired the zeal of earliec^-field woAors who contrihutBti-aQ^^ch to the early 
history and coll^etions of this and\kindred institutions, and to our greater 
knowledg^<5T the marine life of America^ William Stimpson, Thomas Say, 
St earn s and a hro st of ot hex? 
Daria #::^,L&Gk ingt d ri 
The conclusion of last year’s exploration account left me on . 
I *'ea.ckec( Ucy>iei*%hiir 
my way to that "Vale of Paradise", Valparaiso, Chile As the steamer stopped 
en route to discharge and take on cargo, halts often of some hours duration. 
■*ntof ogasta, Chanaral and 
intertidal collections wore made at Tocopilla 
Chaliaral, when it was learned that I represented the 
Cruz Grande, Chile 
conneeted vrith the copper mines 
nst, i tut i 0 nT^T" was akked hy a 
firmative reply, he said 
at that place, if I knev/ Dr 
He named a mosquito after me, 
< 511 ect 0 d l3y Mr. Badgor,3rt«»4te? 
gnod-ert 
th 0" 
stimulating '^California'^climate 
{lris*rt I had the good fortune ff hei' 
‘ti'tixe 
h ome o- f the u3ual ' l ' y" " J<>e '3?^ d' i 't 'ed""pr 
iT |\ & b ' S 6. 1 ■ C' 
hrougTi the kindne 
R ohinggn Or^s e o .“ Alexander Selkirk 
ion on the island 
1. Doniez, part owner of the spiny -lobster fishing conces 
and the schooners which bring the catch to the mainland 
he spiny^lobster 
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