Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 17.—Party crossing the Savannas northwest of Chepo, Panama, on the wayto the mountains at the head of Chagres River. Photograph by Goldman. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 The work clone in the season of 1910-1911, related to vertebrateanimals, land and fresh-water mollusks, and plants, including flower-ing plants, grasses, and ferns. The work on mammals and birds wascarried on by Mr. E. A. Goldman of the Biological Survey of the , Department of Agriculture ; on reptiles, batrachians and fishes,by
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 17.—Party crossing the Savannas northwest of Chepo, Panama, on the wayto the mountains at the head of Chagres River. Photograph by Goldman. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 The work clone in the season of 1910-1911, related to vertebrateanimals, land and fresh-water mollusks, and plants, including flower-ing plants, grasses, and ferns. The work on mammals and birds wascarried on by Mr. E. A. Goldman of the Biological Survey of the , Department of Agriculture ; on reptiles, batrachians and fishes,by Prof. S. E. Meek of the Pield ^luseum of Natural History,Chicago, and Mr. S. F. Hildebrand of the Bureau of Fisheries of theU. S. Department of Commerce and Labor ; on insects, by A. Schwarz and August Busck of the Bureau of Entomology,U. S. Department of Agriculture ; on flowering plants, by Prof. Fig. 18.—Goldman party ascending the bed of a stream on the way into themountains at the head of the Chagres River, Panama. Photograph by Goldman. Pittier Bureau of Plant Industry, of the same department; ongrasses, by Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, of the same bureau ; and on ferns,by Mr. W. R. Tvlaxon of the U. S. National ]\luseum. Mr. Goldman left Washington late in December, 1910, and arrivedin the Canal Zone on the 28th of that month. He spent the followingsix months mainly in the Zone, giving special attention to the GatunLake area, where a luxuriant tropical forest will be replaced by a largelake. He reported that great changes, due to flooding, were alreadyobservable and that still greater ones were impending. The killing NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 19 effect of the water on the standing- tiniber was ah-eady very noticeable,most of the trees rotting and falHng in a remarkably short time. InMarch he made a trip to Chepo, some 40 miles to the east of the CanalZo
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