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It is a pleasure to acknowledge the cordial reception accoided me 
at the National Museum of Chile in Santiago hy Dr. Eduardo Moore, 
the Director of that Institution; Dr. Juan Briiggen of the University 
of Chile; and Dr. Carlos E. Porter, the indefatigable Chilean zoolo¬ 
gist. Dr. Porter is to he highly commended for his personal financial 
support of the Revista Chilena Historia Natural, the only periodical 
of its kind published in Chile. 
Tn Santiago I visited Dr. Ernesto Maldonado, Director of the 
Chilean Forest, Fish and Game Commission, as well as the veiy 
excellent small museum maintained hy this department. In consulta¬ 
tion with Dr. Maldonado and Dr. Augusto Opazo of the Fisheries 
Service, plans were outlined hy which the Smithsonian Institution 
would undertake to prepare a report on the Crustacea of the coasts 
of Chile, based upon material to he collected and shipped to Wash¬ 
ington for the purpose. To the American Ambassador to Chile, 
Mr. Collier, are due thanks for his kindness in lending a member ot 
his staff to this preliminary discussion. 
'Phe Museum of the University of Concepcion, although small, is 
growing and covers a wide range of activities, ft is the best museum 
of its kind that it was my pleasure to visit on the west coast of South 
America. That it is an institution of great promise is due almost 
entirely to the energy and enthusiasm of its Director, Di. Cailos 
Oliver Schneider. 
From Talcahuaiio, Castro on the Island of Chiloe was reached 
five days later, after short stops en route, permitting some shore col¬ 
lecting at Lota, and at Corral. Southward through Chonos Archi¬ 
pelago and the canals of southern Chile to the Straits of Magellan, 
the scenery in many respects compares favoiahly with that of the 
Inland Passage to Alaska. This vast stretch of coast from Castro 
south, over 1,000 miles in a straight line, is still a terra incognita, 
with little more known of its resources and scientific potentialities than 
when Darwin first visited the region 84 years ago. Collections of 
animals were made at Punta Arenas, Chile, before visiting the Falk¬ 
land Islands. In Punta Arenas is a wonderful little museum main¬ 
tained by the Salesian Brotherhood. It is a treasure house of things 
and rarities Fuegian, and is well worth a visit by ethnologists interested 
in this fast disappearing race of Indians. 
Port Stanley, Falklands, was reached after what l consideied a 
rather tempestuous passage, during which the galley of the small 
schooner in which the journey was made was flooded, the potatoes 
and other vegetables washed over-board, and the motoi-ioom hatch 
