Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . canty material available last year did, that this firstgeneration has responded to the new conditions in a remarkablemanner. The facts which were pointed out in a paper by Dr. Flartsch,Publication Xo. 212 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, pages203-212, plates 1-8, have been fully substantiated and materially addedto by the data obtained this year. A new experiment was started in the transplantation of 307 speci-mens of the Florida tree snail Lii:;i(iis fasciatiis to the Tortugas, oneset of which was planted on
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . canty material available last year did, that this firstgeneration has responded to the new conditions in a remarkablemanner. The facts which were pointed out in a paper by Dr. Flartsch,Publication Xo. 212 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, pages203-212, plates 1-8, have been fully substantiated and materially addedto by the data obtained this year. A new experiment was started in the transplantation of 307 speci-mens of the Florida tree snail Lii:;i(iis fasciatiis to the Tortugas, oneset of which was planted on Garden Key within the Iort, and two onLogg-erhead Key. NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, Iyi5 53 As in previous years records on the birds observed on the FloridaKeys and the southern portion of the peninsvila were kept, and theseobservations have been pubHshed in the Year Book No. 14 of theCarnegie Institution for 1915, pages 197-199. The past two yearshave yielded a list of 76 species to which 13 were added this year,bringing the total list of birds noted to date to
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