Washington, D. C., June 20, 1956.—The appointment of Dr. Carl B, 
Koford as resident naturalist of the Smithsonian Institution's Canal Zone 
Biological Area, a tropical-forest and wildlife preserve on Barro Colorado 
Island, was announced today by Dr. Leonard Carmichael, Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Koford will assume his new duties on June 30. 
The new resident mturalist succeeds Mr. James Zetek, who, because 
of illness, recently retired after U5 years of service in the Canal Zone. 
During most of this time Mr. Zetek was with the United States Department 
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of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution. 
Dr. Koford has been a research zoologist at the University of Califor¬ 
nia's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, where he has conducted research on the 
distribution, behavior, and ecology of birds and mammals. Probably the 
best known of his works is a monograph on the California condor, published 
by the National Audubon Society. For that work he was made an elective 
member of the American Ornithologists' Union and received the terrestrial 
ecology award of the American Wildlife Society. He has also conducted 
research at the Hastings Natural History Reservation in California and has 
collected many specimens of birds and mammals at localities in Mexico and 
South America. He spent two years in Peru and Chile, making collections 
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and gathering material for/treatise on the vicuna and for papers on tina- 
mous, rodents, and other animals of the high Andes. En route to Peru he 
made his first acquaintance with Barro Colorado Island and the Canal 
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Zone, where he will now be stationed. 
