Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . nd preserved for study and as manymore were collected for their shells only. Mr. Henderson also visitedPanama for the purpose of learning the possibilities of obtainingsuitable craft from the Canal Zone authorities for contemplatedfuture dredging operations at Colon and Panama. THE MULFORD BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONThe National Museum has received the zoological material, otherthan reptiles, batrachians and fishes, collected by the Mulford Biologi-cal Exploration of the Amazon Basin, an expedition financed by NO. 5 SMITHSOXIAX EXPLORATIONS, ig22 55 the H. K,
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . nd preserved for study and as manymore were collected for their shells only. Mr. Henderson also visitedPanama for the purpose of learning the possibilities of obtainingsuitable craft from the Canal Zone authorities for contemplatedfuture dredging operations at Colon and Panama. THE MULFORD BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONThe National Museum has received the zoological material, otherthan reptiles, batrachians and fishes, collected by the Mulford Biologi-cal Exploration of the Amazon Basin, an expedition financed by NO. 5 SMITHSOXIAX EXPLORATIONS, ig22 55 the H. K, Alulford Co. of Philadelphia. The party consisted of H. Rusby, of the College of Pharmacy of Columbia University,director and botanist, W. M. Mann, assistant custodian of hy-menoptera. National Museum, assistant director, N. E. Pearson of theUniversity of Indiana, ichthyologist, O. E. White of the BrooklynBotanic Garden, botanist, G. Schultz McCarty and two Bolivianstudents, Manuel Lopez and Martin Cardenas, who were detailed by. Fig. 53.—Start of mule train, Vuz. I(Photograph by N. E. Pearson.) the Bolivian Government to study entomology and botany with theexpedition members, and was accompanied by Mr. Gordan MacCreaghand J. Duval Brown, moving picture photographers, representing theAmazon Film Company. The expedition left New York on June i, 1921, and proceededto Arica, Chile, and from there to La Paz, Bolivia, where arrange-ments were made for transportation across the mountains. At Pongo ^6 ;^[yTIIS()^?lAx ; de Ouinie (Alt. ft.) above the tinil)er line, a stop was nnulefor several clays and considerable zoological material gathered. Fromhere to Espia the journey was by mule train. Espia is a spot atthe junction of the ]\Iegilla and La Paz rivers which form the RioBopi. In August it was exceedingly dry and not very productiveof specimens.
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